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Sweeper. Circa 1925
Chagall Marc,
Gouache and Chinese ink on coloured and black paper
65,3 х 50,2
Private collection, Europe
Annotation
According to Meret Meyer, Chagall’s granddaughter, this is the image that was photographed and included in a 1920s album compiled by Bella Chagall of gouache paintings (in 1927, the album formed part of the Galerie Granoff Collection in Paris). In other words, this is a version of Sweeper (1913), which remained in Russia after Chagall left for Germany.
Author's Biography
Chagall Marc
Chagall, Marc (Shagal, Mark Zakharovich)
1887, Vitebsk - 1985, St Paul de Vence (France)
Painter, graphic artist. Studied at the Yehuda Pen School in Vitebsk (1906), School of Drawing, Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1907-08), Seidenberg''s studio, under Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and Leon Bakst at the Elizaveta Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting (1908-09) and in private studios in Paris (1910-14). Contributed to the exhibitions of the World of Art (1912), Donkey''s Tail (1912), Salon des Independants (1912-14) and Jack of Diamonds (1916). Lived in Vitebsk and Petrograd (from 1915), director of the Vitebsk School of Art. Moved to Moscow (1920) and worked for the Jewish Chamber Theatre. Illustrated Nikolai Gogol''s Dead Souls and La Fontaine''s frobtes for Ambroise Vollard. Designed the sets and costumes for a production of Igor Stravinsky''s ballet The Firebird (1945). Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern An in New York (1946). Lived in Paris (from 1923), USA (from 1941) and St Paul de Vence (from 1950).