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Marc Chagall (1887 Witebsk - 1985 Paul de Vence) (F) 'Les amoureux sous l'arbre', aquatint etching on wove, 1967, sheet size 32 cm x 40.5 cm, plate size 19 cm x 24 cm, signed, numbered 25/35, with the artist's watermark (hand holding a branch),Provenance: Haas collection, EssenLiterature: cat. rais. Cramer 15"I've been obsessed with the Bible since I was a child. (...) I have always felt its presence in life and in art. (...) Aren't colour and painting inspired by love? (...) Within this love lies the logic of life." (Marc Chagall, in: The Biblical Message, 1973, cited from: Harshav, Benjamin: Marc Chagall on Art and Culture, Stanford 2003, p. 172f.)Lovers are a constantly reoccuring motif in Marc Chagall's works. Countless work titles featuring the term "les amoureux / the lovers" testify to his reception of the Old Testament. The Song of Songs, a collection of love songs, was a key text for Chagall that inspired him to create works dealing with the themes of human existence, relationships and love throughout his life. The print "Les amoreaux sous l'arbre" was published in a small edition of 35 numbered copies and is thus much more seldom than the other composition with the same title printed in a black and white and a colour edition in 1968. The couple is actually depicted beneath a donkey, another of Chagall's reoccurring motifs, whilst a violist plays a serenade beneath the tree on the right.
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