Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Listening to the Rooster
Alternate Title:
En écoutant le coq
Image View:
Overall view without frame
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:
1942 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American; French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
watercolor (painting)
Classification:
Drawings and Watercolors
Material:
gouache; black chalk; pastel on paper
Technique:
aquarelle (technique); drawing (image-making)
Subjects:
abstraction; allegory; animal; folkloric; dreamlike; rooster; cock; chicken; pig; human
Description:
From a private collection. Chagall took French citizenship in 1937, but, with his wife Bella, he was forced to seek asylum in the USA in 1941 after he had been briefly imprisoned under the Vichy government in Marseille. The red rooster is frequently a symbol of vitality and fertility in Chagall's work. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-LTTR-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Listening to the Rooster