Original Marc Chagall Art for Sale

"Carmen"
Price: $160,000.00

Signed Lithograph, 1966

This beautifully rich scene comes alive with color and vivid imagery in a way that immerses its audience into a world of fantasy and whimsy. Carmine bursts with energy and captures the imagination of all who admire it. Created in 1966 from a maquette for Chagall's "Triumph of Music," a series of 3 large-scale decorations created for the Metropolitan Opera House in New York (one being Carmine, The Magic Flute, Romeo and Juliet). Numbered from the edition of 200 in the lower right, this piece was pulled on Arches vellum paper and also hand signed by Marc Chagall in the lower right.

Considered to be one of Chagall's most exquisite works, Carmine is an example of a musically rich and historic tradition to which Chagall wanted to pay homage. In the center, a whimsical mandolin player captures our attention, twirling his instrument and dressed in bright, colorful costume; this musician was later to be revealed as the artist's close confidante, Rudolf Bing, director of the Metropolitan Opera House at the time. It had been a tradition that dated back to the middle ages in which artists would include patrons in the pieces they commissioned, something Chagall had recognized and wanted to celebrate within this work. For catalogue info & COA, click the link at eh beginning.