The Circus Rider

Modern Art

c. 1927

Marc Chagall
Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: The Circus Rider
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.: 1922–1932
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, l.r.: "ChAgAll"
Dimensions: 23.8 × 18.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman
Reference Number: 1949.516
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Kunsthalle Basel, Marc Chagall, exh. cat. (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1933), p. 17, cat. 98, as L’acrobate, 1932–1933.
Arts Club, Marc Chagall, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1945), n.p., cat. 36, as The Circus Rider, n.d.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 74.
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The Circus in Art, exh. cat. (Sarasota, Fla.: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1977), n.p. (ill.), as Circus Rider, c. 1927.
A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), p. 36, no. 1D2.
Sadye Tune Wilson, Else Regensteiner: Biography of a Weaver (Nashville, Tenn.: Tunstede, 1997), p. 101 (ill.), as The Circus Rider, c. 1927.
Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall, 1887–1985 (Cologne: Taschen, 1998), p. 133 (ill.), as Circus Rider, 1927.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), cat. 8, as The Circus Rider, c. 1927.

Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Marc Chagall, November 4–December 3, 1933, p. 17, cat. 98, as L’acrobate, 1932–1933.
Chicago, Arts Club, April 1939.
Chicago, Arts Club, Marc Chagall, January 2–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 36, as The Circus Rider, n.d.
Sarasota, Fla., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The Circus in Art, January 20–March 6, 1977, n.p. (ill.), as Circus Rider, c. 1927; traveled to Gainesville, Fla., University of Florida Gallery, March 20–April 20, 1977.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 3–August 24, 2003, cat. 8, as The Circus Rider, c. 1927.

Marc Chagall, to Jan. 1934 [letter to the artist from Kunsthalle Basel, Jan. 18, 1934, in curatorial file]. Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, by 1936 [this and the following according to letter from Mrs. Gilbert Chapman, Nov. 27, 1974, in curatorial file]; sold to Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

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