The Circus Rider
Marc Chagall Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985 · c. 1927

The Circus Rider

Marc Chagall Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985

The Circus Rider

c. 1927

Marc Chagall's 'The Circus Rider' (1925–1931) is one of the Russian-French painter's beloved circus subjects. A woman in a pink tutu balances on a flying white horse while angels and fiddlers wheel around her, an early form of Chagall's lifelong 'circus as fable' iconography. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.

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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago

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