1927, Marc Chagall, Le Rêve (The Dream) -- Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris
From the museum label: Born in Belarus, Marc Chagall first lived in Paris in 1911-14 before settling there again in 1923. He made this painting at a time when art dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned him to work on the theme of the circus: the enchanting world of acrobats, funambulists and horse riders led Chagall to produce unreal works where animals and characters seem to escape the law of gravity. In The Dream, a large hybrid animal, half-donkey, half-rabbit, carries a woman upside down on its back. The landscape that surrounds them also appears upside down: the Moon floats in the lower part of the painting while the trees seem to hang in the upper edge of the canvas. The bright colors, dominated by a deep and luminous blue, accentuate the radiant and dreamlike atmosphere of the composition.
1927, Marc Chagall, Le Rêve (The Dream) -- Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris
From the museum label: Born in Belarus, Marc Chagall first lived in Paris in 1911-14 before settling there again in 1923. He made this painting at a time when art dealer Ambroise Vollard commissioned him to work on the theme of the circus: the enchanting world of acrobats, funambulists and horse riders led Chagall to produce unreal works where animals and characters seem to escape the law of gravity. In The Dream, a large hybrid animal, half-donkey, half-rabbit, carries a woman upside down on its back. The landscape that surrounds them also appears upside down: the Moon floats in the lower part of the painting while the trees seem to hang in the upper edge of the canvas. The bright colors, dominated by a deep and luminous blue, accentuate the radiant and dreamlike atmosphere of the composition.