


Femme Pres de la Fenetre (Woman by a Window)
This luminous lithograph captures Chagall's distinctive visual poetry through the figure of a woman positioned at a window, a motif that recurs throughout his career as a threshold between the intimate and the infinite. The composition bathes the scene in warm yellows and soft blues, with the artist's characteristic dreamlike quality evident in the flowing treatment of form and the interplay of transparent color fields. The woman's profile and the architectural framing of the window become vehicles for Chagall's meditation on longing, memory, and spiritual transcendence, rendered through his masterful command of the lithographic medium. The muted palette of earth tones and jewel-like accents creates an atmosphere both grounded and ethereal, inviting the viewer into a deeply personal emotional space. As a signed edition work from 1964, this lithograph represents the artist at a mature moment in his career, when he had fully synthesized his modernist vocabulary with his Russian-Jewish heritage and deeply personal symbolism. The technical execution demonstrates Chagall's sophisticated understanding of color lithography, a medium to which he devoted significant creative energy throughout his life. The relatively modest edition size of fifty impressions underscores the work's collectible status, while the substantial scale allows the delicate tonalities and compositional nuances to fully register. This piece stands as a testament to Chagall's enduring ability to transform ordinary moments of domestic life into profound meditations on human connection and the poetic dimensions of existence.
- Medium
- Marc Chagall, The Yellow Sun, (Mourlot 420), 1964, Signed, Lithograph in colors on Rives BFK, Edition 32/50, 30" x 22" Sheet Size
- Location
- Georgetown Frame Shoppe, Washington, DC
For Sale — $20000
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