MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Le Cirque: one plate
lithograph in colors, on Arches paper, 1967, signed in pencil, annotated 'HC' (one of three hors-commerce impressions, aside from the edition of 24), published by Tériade Editeur, Paris, framed

Image: 16¾ x 12¾ in. (425 x 324 mm.)
Sheet: 20⅜ x 14⅞ in. (518 x 378 mm.)

Mourlot 498; Cramer books 68

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Circus performers, with their outlandish costumes and garish make-up, were ideal characters to populate Chagall's dream-like compositions. With its bright lights and colors, where the real and imaginary form so perfect a union, is nothing less than fundamental to the work of Marc Chagall. -Chagall: A Retrospective,Baal-Teshuva