Marc Chagall
Woman with Pigs
- (ndg.), gouache on paper
- 6.1 x 8.7 in. (15.5 x 22 cm.)
- Private Collection
- 596 x 800 (91 KB)
The Poet Reclining
- [Le Poète allongé]
- (1915), oil on board
- 30.4 x 30.5 in. (77.2 x 77.5 cm.)
- Tate Collection
- 800 x 796 (91 KB)
Holy Family
- (1910), oil on canvas
- 29.8 x 24.8 in. (75.7 x 63 cm.)
- Kunsthaus, Zurich
- 658 x 800 (91 KB)
Odysseus and Eumaeus
- [from Odyssey II (M. 796; see C. books 96)]
- (1975) color lithograph on Japon nacre
- 16.5 x 12.5 in. (41.9 x 31.7 cm.)
- Private collection
- 581 x 750 (101 KB)
The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat
- [from the series “Les Fables”,
by the French poet, Jean de la Fontaine (1621–1695)] - (1928–31), hand colored etching
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- 471 x 600 (78 KB)
The Watering Trough
- (1923), oil on canvas
- 39.3 x 34.7 in. (99.7 x 88.1 cm.)
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- 754 x 850 (98 KB)
The Watering Trough
- (1924), lithograph
- 11.7 x 9.3 in. (29.6 x 23.6 cm.)
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- 490 x 625 (85 KB)
Detail of mural section for
the State Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow- (1920), tempera, gouache and kaolin on canvas
- full mural section: 111.8 x 309.8 in. (284 x 787 cm.)
- The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- detail: 620 x 825 (93 KB)
- full mural section: 850 x 322 (85 KB)
Editor’s Note:
In the 1920s Chagall created a series of murals for the lobby of the State Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow. His commission was to create a series of panels on the origins of various Jewish art forms. However, Chagall’s choice of specific subjects and the manner he choose depicted them within the murals were considered potentially incendiary for the theatre’’s centerpiece and led to Chagall’s dismissal from the Moscow Yiddish Theatre’s employ.
The image of the man urinating on the pig is consisered as Chagalls comentary on a contemporary, the avant–gard gentile artist Kazimir Malevich and his exclusive faith in abstraction and militant modernism in art.