1967／Oil on paper mounted on canvas
38.0 x 57.2 cm
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum –
Exhibition period：Saturday April 12～Sunday June 8, 2025
Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
SUMMARY
A “circus” is one of the important subjects in Chagall’s painting. While a large audience is watching, a female circus rider on a white horse stands in front of a large ring held by a clown, and beyond the rider are seen a female acrobat riding a trapeze, a man holding a chicken, and a person with the head of a donkey. With vivid colors such as yellows and reds scattered around against a clear blue background, the painting seems to represent an event in a child’s dream. It is a work filled with the mysterious beauty of Chagall, who transformed his own inner world into a fantastical picture full of poetical sentiment.
ARTIST
Marc Chagall
1887-1985
List of artworks by the same artist
INFORMATION
Saturday, April 12 - Sunday, June 8, 2025
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
Friday, July 26 - Monday, September 23, 2024
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Shizuoka City Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)
Saturday, March 23 - Sunday, June 23, 2024
Where The Gaze Reaches: Masterpieces from the Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Chengdu Art Museum (Chengdu, China)
Tuesday, November 28 - Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Vision and Gaze: Western Figure and Portrait Painting from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Nanshan Museum (Shenzhen, China)
Saturday, August 5 - Sunday, November 12, 2023
Faces of Time: Western Portrait Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum National Centre for the Perfoming Arts (Beijing, China)
Wednesday, April 19 - Sunday, July 23, 2023
400 Years of Western Figure and Portrait Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China)
Tuesday, December 27 - Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Vision and Gaze: Western Figure Painting from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Liaoning Provincial Museum (Shenyang, China)
Saturday, September 17 - Sunday, November 20, 2022
400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (Toyama, Japan)
Saturday, July 16 - Sunday, September 4, 2022
Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art (Kumamoto, Japan)
Saturday, March 19 - Sunday, May 8, 2022
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan)
Saturday, October 23 - Sunday, December 26, 2021
The 400 Years of Western Painting: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan)
Friday, July 9 - Sunday, August 29, 2021
400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)
Tuesday, December 15 - Sunday, January 31, 2021
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
Saturday, September 12 - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan)
Wednesday, July 22 - Sunday, September 6, 2020
400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan)
Thursday, February 20 - Sunday, April 12, 2020
How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan)
Tuesday, September 3 - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan)
Saturday, January 12 - Saturday, May 4, 2019
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China)
Tuesday, October 23 - Sunday, December 23, 2018
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China)
Saturday, April 29 - Sunday, June 25, 2017
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan)
Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, August 28, 2016
300 years of Western Painting from Baroque, Rococo to École de Paris Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan)
Saturday, June 27 - Sunday, August 30, 2015
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris Yawatahama Citizen Gallery (Ehime, Japan)
Wednesday, April 29 - Sunday, June 21, 2015
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan)
Wednesday, October 3 - Sunday, November 25, 2012
Marc Chagall 2012 The Love Story The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
Monday, July 30 - Sunday, September 23, 2012
Marc Chagall 2012 The Love Story The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum (Niigata, Japan)
Sunday, June 10 - Sunday, July 22, 2012
Marc Chagall 2012 – The Love Story – Nagasaki Prefectual Art Museum (Nagasaki, Japan)
Sunday, April 8 - Sunday, June 3, 2012
Marc Chagall -The Love Story- The Museum of Art, Kochi (Kochi, Japan)
Friday, February 10 - Sunday, April 1, 2012
Marc Chagall 2012 The Love Story Matsumoto City Museum of Art (Nagano, Japan)
Saturday, June 4 - Sunday, August 14, 2011
Celebration by Marc Chagall National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
Friday, December 3 - Sunday, March 27, 2011
Chagall : Magician of Color Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
Saturday, July 14 - Sunday, November 25, 2007
Impressionists and Its Sources: Monet, Renoir, and Barbizon Masters Musee d'art Mercian KARUIZAWA (Nagano, Japan)
Friday, August 1 - Sunday, August 31, 2003
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan)
Friday, April 18 - Sunday, May 25, 2003
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
Thursday, January 2 - Sunday, January 26, 2003
Great Masters of Modern Japanese Oil Paintings Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan)
Saturday, October 12 - Sunday, November 10, 2002
Invitation to Occidental Painting Arts: from Barbizon School to Contemporary Art Abashiri Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan)
Saturday, September 7 - Sunday, September 29, 2002
Four Centuries of Occidental Paintings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection SOGO Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan)
Saturday, July 20 - Sunday, September 1, 2002
The Great Masters of Art Hida Takayama Museum of Art (Gifu, Japan)
Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 23, 2002
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Fukui City Art Museum (Fukui, Japan)
Saturday, May 11 - Sunday, June 2, 2002
Modern Western Painting Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture Reimeikan (Kagoshima, Japan)
Saturday, April 13 - Monday, May 6, 2002
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
Sunday, October 1 - Sunday, December 3, 2000
Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
Wednesday, August 12 - Tuesday, August 25, 1998
Chagall Exhibition Daimaru Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Tuesday, October 14 - Sunday, November 30, 1997
Masterpieces of Western Oil Painting from the TFAM Collection Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong, China)
Saturday, June 14 - Monday, July 7, 1997
400 Years of Art in the East and West—From the Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (Ishikawa, Japan)
Friday, October 16 - Thursday, November 5, 1992
Masterpieces of European Oil Painting: The Paintings in 20th Century from the Renaissance to Impressionism China Art Gallery (Beijing, China)
Provenance: Galerie Maeght, Paris Shoneman Galleries, New York Private Collection, New York Hirschl & Adler, New York Private Collection, New York
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