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MARC CHAGALL<BR>[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses] <BR>Vitebsk, Belarus 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes <BR><BR>The Butcher - circa 1930<BR>Original Hand Signed Ink Drawing<BR><BR>Title : The Butcher<BR><BR>Technique : Origina brush and ink darwing on paper.<BR><BR>Paper size : 22.4 x 28.3 / 8.8 x 11.4 inch. <BR><BR>Additional Information : This is a are and important original drawing by Marc Chagall.<BR>The drawing is Hand Signed by the artist at the lower right corner "Chagall" and it was painted in circa 1930.<BR><BR>Provenance: David McNeil (The artists son), Paris, by decent<BR>Chagall’s first wife, Bella, died tragically at a young age in 1944. For months after her death Chagall could not work but was helped through the crisis by his daughter, Ida. Ida hired an English French speaking maid called Virgina McNiel to take care of her father and Virginia became the artist’s muse until 1951. She was the mother of David McNiel from whose inheritance this present work comes.<BR>Acquired by the last owner in 1987.<BR>This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNiel, the artists son. numebred D1503, dated 10 July 1987<BR><BR>Literature: V. Rakitin: “Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russe a Parigi, Milan, 1989. p. 128 (illustrated page 129 )<BR><BR>Exhibited:<BR>Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May - July 1988; This exhibition later travelled to Turin<BR>Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale; Dec 1990 - Mar 1991<BR>Catania, Monastrero dei Benedettini, Oct - Nov 1994 ;<BR>Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June - Aug 1996<BR>Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Marc Chagall “Himmel und Erde” Dec 1996 - Feb 1997<BR>Darmstadt, Institute Mathildenhohe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland bis Paris, Zeichnungen 1906 - 1967 : Dec 1997 - Jan 1998<BR>Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall, Il messaggio biblio, May -July 1998<BR>Klagenfurt, Statgalerie, Marc Chagall, Feb - May 2000, p.17 (illustrated)<BR>Florida: Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, Jan - Marc 2002<BR><BR>Note: Since his childhood Chagall was fascinated by butchers and cows. and one of his earliest goaches dated 1910 depicts the same subject (M.36 - Private Collection, Moscow). It recalls the young artists memories from the frequent visits to his grandfather’s village, Lyozno, next to Vitebesk. Chagall gives a full account of his grandfathers activity as a butcher in “My Life” ass he remembers a “big bellied cow” being slaughtered : “The butcher in black and white, knife in hand, is rolling up his sleeves. The prayer is hardly over before he holds her neck and runs the steel into her throat. Torrents of blood”. Intrigued by the animal, Chagall seems to have had some compassion for the cow. “And you, little cow, naked and crucified, your are dreaming in heaven. The glittering knife has raised you to the skies” (My Life page 20). Our drawing, dated circa 1930, schematically drawn with gentle pencil lines, captures the essence of the forthcoming action of slaughter. Whilst the artist worked in his studio in Paris “La Ruche” , he would often visit the slaughterhouse situated nearby, as would his fellow artist Chaim Soutine (1893 - 1943). In his various versions of ox carcasses, Soutine also shares Chagall’s interest in the animals’s slaughter. This drawing echoes one of his compositions executed in “La Ruche” entitled “The Slaughterhouse” of 1913 - 1914.
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