1967／Oil on paper mounted on canvas
38.0 x 57.2 cm
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
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8 5, 2023 （Sat.）～11 12 （Sun.）
Faces of Time: Western Portrait Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum National Centre for the Perfoming Arts (Beijing, China)
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400 Years of Western Figure and Portrait Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China)
12 27, 2022 （Tue.）～4 5 （Wed.）
Vision and Gaze: Western Figure Painting from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Liaoning Provincial Museum (Shenyang, China)
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400 Years of Western Paintings – Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum – Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (Toyama, Japan)
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3 19, 2022 （Sat.）～5 8 （Sun.）
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7 9, 2021 （Fri.）～8 29 （Sun.）
400 Years of European Paintings: Masterpieces From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)
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How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
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400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Miyazaki, Japan)
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400 Years of Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Oita Prefectural Art Museum (Oita, Japan)
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How to Read Western Paintings: Masterpieces from Tokyo Fuji Art Museum The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki (Ibaraki, Japan)
9 3, 2019 （Tue.）～10 22 （Tue.）
Masterpieces of European Paintings From Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum (Yamaguchi, Japan)
1 12, 2019 （Sat.）～5 4 （Sat.）
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China)
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500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China)
4 29, 2017 （Sat.）～6 25 （Sun.）
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan)
7 9, 2016 （Sat.）～8 28 （Sun.）
300 years of Western Painting from Baroque, Rococo to École de Paris Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (Nagano, Japan)
6 27, 2015 （Sat.）～8 30 （Sun.）
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris Yawatahama Citizen Gallery (Ehime, Japan)
4 29, 2015 （Wed.）～6 21 （Sun.）
Feast of beauty: 300 years of Western Painting From Baroque, Rococo to Ecole de Paris The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan)
10 3, 2012 （Wed.）～11 25 （Sun.）
Marc Chagall 2012 The Love Story The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
7 30, 2012 （Mon.）～9 23 （Sun.）
Marc Chagall 2012 The Love Story The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum (Niigata, Japan)
6 10, 2012 （Sun.）～7 22 （Sun.）
Marc Chagall 2012 – The Love Story – Nagasaki Prefectual Art Museum (Nagasaki, Japan)
4 8, 2012 （Sun.）～6 3 （Sun.）
Marc Chagall -The Love Story- The Museum of Art, Kochi (Kochi, Japan)
2 10, 2012 （Fri.）～4 1 （Sun.）
Marc Chagall 2012 The Love Story Matsumoto City Museum of Art (Nagano, Japan)
6 4, 2011 （Sat.）～8 14 （Sun.）
Celebration by Marc Chagall National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
12 3, 2010 （Fri.）～3 27 （Sun.）
Chagall : Magician of Color Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
7 14, 2007 （Sat.）～11 25 （Sun.）
Impressionists and Its Sources: Monet, Renoir, and Barbizon Masters Musee d'art Mercian KARUIZAWA (Nagano, Japan)
8 1, 2003 （Fri.）～8 31 （Sun.）
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan)
4 18, 2003 （Fri.）～5 25 （Sun.）
The Great Masters of Art Fukuoka Art Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
1 2, 2003 （Thu.）～1 26 （Sun.）
Great Masters of Modern Japanese Oil Paintings Saga Prefectural Art Museum (Saga, Japan)
10 12, 2002 （Sat.）～11 10 （Sun.）
Invitation to Occidental Painting Arts: from Barbizon School to Contemporary Art Abashiri Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan)
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5 11, 2002 （Sat.）～6 2 （Sun.）
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Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
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Masterpieces of Western Paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th Century National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
8 12, 1998 （Wed.）～8 25 （Tue.）
Chagall Exhibition Daimaru Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
10 14, 1997 （Tue.）～11 30 （Sun.）
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6 14, 1997 （Sat.）～7 7 （Mon.）
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Provenance: Galerie Maeght, Paris Shoneman Galleries, New York Private Collection, New York Hirschl & Adler, New York Private Collection, New York
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