3803 - Marc Chagall, "Sun and Red Horse"

Marc Chagall, "Sun and Red Horse" an imaginative composition depicting a circus ring with mythical creatures, performers and a horse; text on the reverse; catalogue raisonné Mourlot 945; colour lithograph on light-weight card, 1979, inscribed in lead beneath the image on the right as “by Marc Chagall” and titled “Sun and Red Horse” on the left, standard fold line in the centre (smoothed out), colours still fresh, traces of old mounting on the reverse, image dimensions approx. 31 x 42 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 38 x 52.5 cm. Artist’s biography: born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov, a prominent Russian-French painter, graphic artist and sculptor of Jewish origin (1887, Liosno/Vitebsk - 1985, Paul de Vence), a pupil of the painter Jehuda Pen; in 1907 at the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St Petersburg; in 1908 at the Saidenberg private school and under Léon Bakst at the Swansewa School; from 1910, he had his own studio in Paris; a pioneer of Surrealism, famous for his mystical symbolism, active in St Petersburg, Paris, Montrouge and the USA, amongst other places; source: Vollmer, Wikipedia and the internet.