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Chagall often embellished the corners or edges of his floral still-lifes with people and fantastic creatures that are actually key to the import of the larger composition. The lovers embracing in an open boat at lower left in the present gouache are an excellent case in point. Although these figures inhabit a corner only, the great upward thrust of white arums appears to emanate from them, as if these blossoms were the ecstatic expression of their love and joy. Young lovers are the most frequent subject in Chagall’s paintings; they epitomized for the artist the life of emotions in human nature. Also present here is an oddly beaked fish, the marine counterpart to Chagall’s oft appearing rooster, his totemic representation of primitive nature, the life force. Fish, flowers and the lovers in their boat are all awash in a deep blue and green sea; or is it the night sky?–a crescent moon hovers along the upper right edge. A man and a woman journey on the sea of their love, while tender is the night that embraces them, starry with arums and roses!

Lilies (Les Arums) - Marc Chagall Floral Painting

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Chagall often embellished the corners or edges of his floral still-lifes with people and fantastic creatures that are actually key to the import of the larger composition. The lovers embracing in an open boat at lower left in the present gouache are an excellent case in point. Although these figures inhabit a corner only, the great upward thrust of white arums appears to emanate from them, as if these blossoms were the ecstatic expression of their love and joy. Young lovers are the most frequent subject in Chagall’s paintings; they epitomized for the artist the life of emotions in human nature. Also present here is an oddly beaked fish, the marine counterpart to Chagall’s oft appearing rooster, his totemic representation of primitive nature, the life force. Fish, flowers and the lovers in their boat are all awash in a deep blue and green sea; or is it the night sky?–a crescent moon hovers along the upper right edge. A man and a woman journey on the sea of their love, while tender is the night that embraces them, starry with arums and roses!

Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985) was a Russian-French artist. Chagall was considered as pioneer of modern art and one of its greatest figurative painters who invented a visual language that recorded the thrill and terror of the 20th century. For decades, he has been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist. "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is".


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