Composition with Circles and Goat - Marc Chagall
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A 1920 oil painting by Marc Chagall featuring geometric forms, a goat, and a human figure in a dreamlike, abstract arrangement.
Painted in 1920, this work reflects the period following Marc Chagall's return to Russia after his initial time in Paris. The composition displays a departure from his earlier, more narrative-driven scenes, moving towards a geometric abstraction that incorporates his characteristic personal iconography. A human figure, wearing a distinct purple cap, sits in profile, positioned alongside two large, stacked blue circles that dominate the left side of the frame.
To the right, a green rectangular plane provides a backdrop for a goat, a recurring motif in Chagall's work that often links to his childhood memories of Vitebsk. A small bird rests upon a foot, adding a whimsical element to the otherwise rigid geometry. The painting is divided by a diagonal white bar, which creates a sense of spatial tension between the organic forms and the flat, coloured planes. The texture of the paint, particularly on the green surface, suggests a deliberate application that contrasts with the smooth, rounded forms of the blue spheres.
Chagall here experiments with the spatial language of the Russian avant-garde, yet he retains the dreamlike quality that defines his career. The work avoids traditional perspective, opting instead for a flattened arrangement of shapes that forces the viewer to engage with the painting as a constructed object. The juxtaposition of the goat, the human figure, and the abstract circles creates a visual puzzle, typical of the artist's interest in memory and folklore. This piece offers a glimpse into the artist's transition between his early experiences in the West and the shifting artistic climate of post-revolutionary Russia.
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Composition with Circles and Goat - Marc Chagall
Artist Biography
Marc Chagall
He was born Moishe Shagal in 1887, in the Pale of Settlement, the restricted zone where Jews were permitted to live in the Russian Empire. His father worked at a herring warehouse. The family was devout Hasidic. After studying in St Petersburg, he went to Paris in 1911 and immersed himself in the Fauvists and Cubists, absorbing their formal innovations without abandoning the narrative imagery of his childhood. The colour and the dreamlike floating figures were already there in Vitebsk. Paris gave him the structure.
He met Bella Rosenfeld, the daughter of a wealthy Vitebsk jeweller, and married her in 1915. She became his primary subject for the next three decades. The flying lovers that recur across his work, gravity-defying couples suspended above rooftops and villages, began with Bella. When she died of a streptococcal infection in New York in September 1944, penicillin existed but the entire supply was reserved for soldiers. He stopped painting for nine months. He continued to paint her memory for the remaining forty-one years of his life.
Picasso once said that when Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is. The friendship ended at a dinner at Chagall's home in 1964. Picasso asked when he was going back to Russia. Chagall replied: after you, I hear you are greatly loved there but not your work. They never spoke again.
His late stained glass commissions are among the strongest work of his final decades: the Peace Window at the United Nations, the twelve windows representing the Tribes of Israel at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, and windows at Metz Cathedral. In 1964, Andre Malraux commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Paris Opera, a decision that provoked fury from critics who objected to a Russian-born Jewish artist working inside a French Baroque monument. He lived to ninety-seven.
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