Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Backdrop Designs for Paris Opera Ballet Production, Daphnis and Chloe
Image View:
Backdrop One for Act I; detail, flowers
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian painter, 1887-1985)
Location:
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest; Chagall: Colour and Music (Exhibition, January 28 to June 11, 2017)
GPS:
45.4987-73.5801
Date:
1958 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
cartoon (working drawing)
Work Type 2:
watercolor (painting)
Classification:
Drawings and Watercolors
Material:
Gouache; tempera; graphite; colored pencil; silver paper collage
Technique:
aquarelle (technique); drawing (image-making)
Subjects:
abstraction; literary or legendary; music; mythology (Classical); Musical instruments; Performing arts; folkloric; dreamlike; dance; ballet; Ancient Greece; Greek temples
Description:
In 1958, the Paris Opera commissioned Chagall to design the sets and costumes for the ballet “Daphnis and Chloe” by Maurice Ravel and Mikhail Fokine (commissioned by Serge de Diaghilev in 1909). Inspired by the ancient Greek novel of Longus (2nd century CE), it describes the multiple twists that prevent Daphnis, young goatherd, and Chloe, shepherdess, to live their love. Chagall also produced a series of 42 color lithographs, created as he created the sets and costumes. He was inspired by a visit to Greece and the contrasts of sunlight, blue sea and stone. These are the final backdrop designs, painted on paper. (Source: Philharmonie de Paris; Marc Chagall, le triomphe de la musique (pdf); http://chagall.philh armoniedeparis.fr/do cs/dp-expo-chagall.p df)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-DC-BD3-A 02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Backdrop Designs for Paris Opera Ballet Production, Daphnis and Chloe