Dimensions: support: 1305 x 975 x 23 mm frame: 1545 x 1215 x 126 mm
Copyright: © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2014 | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: "Bouquet with Flying Lovers" by Marc Chagall, held at the Tate. It feels like a dream, all those blues and floating figures. What do you see in this piece, beyond the obvious romance? Curator: It's like peering into Chagall's soul, isn't it? The bouquet, overflowing with life, yet tinged with melancholy, like memories. Those lovers – are they embracing or saying goodbye? Maybe both, at the same time. Editor: That's bittersweet, I hadn't thought of it that way. Curator: Chagall painted love and loss with the same brush, wouldn't you agree? A celebration and a lament. Perhaps that's what makes it so deeply human. Editor: Definitely gives me a new appreciation for the complexity of Chagall.
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According to the artist, this picture was begun in the mid-1930s, when he was living in Paris and painting a number of still lifes of flowers. He worked on it at intervals over a period of many years, and the present composition is the final state of three or four. In it two lovers hover behind the dominating vase of flowers, while an angel flies in through the window. To the right is a glimpse of the village of Vitebsk in modern day Belarus, where the artist was born. The painting appears to evoke an atmosphere of happiness, but the artist said that it expressed feelings of loss and nostalgia: his wife Bella had died shortly before the final repainting of the work, and he was passing through a period of mourning. Gallery label, March 2023
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