Ceramic

Circus

or Pirouette at the Circus

Marc CHAGALL

No. C-5
1950
Dish
color clay, slip and oxide decoration, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze
16 _5/16 x 13 _11/16 in. (41.5 x 34.7 cm)
Signed Chagall at the bottom right corner
Signed Chagall Antibes and dated 1950 on the back
Pottery studio: Poterie des Remparts

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Marc CHAGALL, Circus or Pirouette at the Circus (Cirque ou Pirouette au cirque), 1950, color clay, slip and oxide decoration, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze, 16 _5/16 x 13 _11/16 in. (41.5 x 34.7 cm), Private collection © ADAGP, Paris, 2025

Hommage à Marc Chagall, Grand Palais, Paris, France, December 13, 1969 - March 8, 1970

Life, No. 14, 1952, ill. p. 100
Hommage à Marc Chagall, (exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, December 13,1969 - March 8, 1970), Paris, RMN-Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1969, No. 346, ill. p. 282, p. 263
SORLIER, Charles, MALRAUX, André, Les céramiques et sculptures de Chagall, Monaco, Éditions André Sauret, 1972, No. 132, ill. p. 153
FORESTIER, Sylvie, MEYER, Meret, Chagall e la ceramica, Milan, Jaca Book, 1990, fig. 18, No. 23, ill. p. n. p., p. 16, 156
FORESTIER, Sylvie, MEYER, Meret, Les céramiques de Chagall, Paris, Albin Michel, 1990, fig. 18, No. 23, ill. p. n. p., p. 16, 156
La terre est si lumineuse : Marc Chagall et la céramique, (exhibition catalogue, Vallauris, Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, June 30, 2007 - September 30, 2007 ; Roubaix, La Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent, October 19, 2007 - January 20, 2008 ; Céret, Musée d'art moderne de Céret, February 16, 2008 - May 25, 2008), Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2007, ill. p. 2