The Actor

Prints and Drawings

1914

Marc Chagall
French, born Belarus, 1887-1985

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Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: The Actor
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1914
Medium: Pen and brush and black ink, over traces of graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Marc" and lower right: "Chagall"
Dimensions: Primary support: 16.5 × 13.3 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 17.8 × 14.1 cm (7 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro
Reference Number: 1992.205
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Franz Meyer, Marc Chagall: Leben und Werk (Cologne, 1961), pp. 290 (ill.) and 744.
Jean Cassou, Chagall, trans. by Alisa Jaffa (New York, 1965), pp. 90–91 and 277, fig. 62,
Roy McMullin and Izis Bidermanas, The World of Marc Chagall (Garden City, NY, 1968), pp. 152 and 154 (ill.), dated 1916.

Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, “Marc Chagall: Paintings and Graphic Works,” February 15–March 8, 1958, cat. 19, as The Actor, n.d.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Drawings 1916/1966,” February 28–April 11, 1966, n.p., cat. 13, dated 1916.
Chicago, Spertus Museum of Judaica, “The French Connection: Jewish Artists in the School of Paris 1900–1940, Works in Chicago Collections,” October 24–December 31, 1982, n.p., cat. 5 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “An Irrational Act: Gifts of Surrealist Works on Paper from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Randall Shapiro,” December 15, 1992-April 18, 1993, p. 8, fig. 6.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Shapiro, Chicago, probably by 1958 [Chicago 1958]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.

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