Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Lovers on a Rooster

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Lovers on a Rooster
Alternate Title: 
Les Amoureux sur le coq
Image View: 
Overall view from front; couple are superimposed on the ornamented bird shaped stone
Creator: 
Marc Chagall (Belorussian sculptor, 1887-1985)
Location: 
exhibition: 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: 
bas-relief (sculpture)
Work Type 2: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
marble
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Subjects: 
animal; rooster; lovers; superimposed; bird; folkloric; dreamlike
Description: 
In the early 1950s Chagall experimented both with painted ceramics and with small carved marble sculptures such as Pillar (479 × 229 mm, 1953; priv. col., see Haftmann, p. 35), in which animals and human figures appear to be compressed into the block of stone. This work is essentially a bas-relief carved on a freestanding shaped stone. Part of 2017 exhibit, "Chagall, sculptures." (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-CHAGALL-AAV-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.