Art Of The Day Weekly
#246 - from 16 February 2012 to 22 February 2012
Chagall, Golgotha, Calvaire, 1912, oil on canvas, 174.6 x 192.4 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, 1949. © 2011 Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence © VEGAP
Seven decades of Chagall
MADRID – Faced with the blockbusters announced all over Europe – Matisse in Paris, Titian and Tintoretto in Italy, Klimt in Vienna or Picasso in London – the Spanish capital brings out Chagall. Jean-Louis Prat, the director for decades of the Fondation Maeght, has organized this exhibition that will benefit from all the links he knit during his years in Saint Paul de Vence and, of course, from his role at the head of the Comité Chagall. From 1909 (L’anneau The ring) to 1976 (Le Fils prodigue The prodigal son), one of the longest careers of the century is revisited through a remarkable ensemble of paintings and drawings (150 works) from all his periods: his youth at Vitebsk, the Jewish theatre in Moscow during the revolution, Paris between the two wars up to his American period in 1941-48 and his return to France. This marathon will be presented in two chronological phases: the first at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, the second in the walls of the Caja Madrid foundation, the usual partner and ideally located behind Puerta del Sol.
• Chagall at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum and the Caja Madrid foundation, from 14 February to 20 May 2012.