Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Sculpted Vase
Alternate Title:
Vase sculpté
Image View:
Overall view from the back, showing part that was wheel-thrown, decorated with a "floating" couple
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian ceramicist, 1887-1985)
Location:
repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
GPS:
43.709167 7.269536
Date:
1952 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
vase
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
fired ceramic: clay; oxides; glazes
Technique:
carving (processes); fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
decorative arts; potter; wheel thrown; woman; goat; sgraffito
Description:
In the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics, to which he applied his familiar motifs, for example The Betrothed (h. 318 mm, 1957; priv. col., see Haftmann, p. 34). During a decade he produced 220 ceramic works. Chagall, unlike most artists, was not content with decorating pieces made by professional potters. He himself molded his clay and created original forms. In this work he took a wheel-thrown vase and cut away the back, engraved it (sgraffito) with a knife, painted it with oxides and glazes, and added a hand and figurine of a goat to the base. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-SV1-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Sculpted Vase