Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Man with Pig 1922-23 Marc Chagall, French (born Russia), 1887 - 1985 Halftone lithograph Currently not on view 1963-181-137 The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963 |
LabelThis print relates to the mural Introduction to the Jewish Theater, which Chagall executed in 1920 as part of a commission for the State Yiddish Chamber Theater in Moscow. A total of seven paintings filled the inside of the theater’s auditorium, creating a brightly colored, rhythmically patterned environment that came to be known as “Chagall’s box.” As with this image of a man in outlandishly mismatched pants standing with his cross-eyed pig, the murals fused the artist’s earlier interest in Cubist fragmentation with bountiful references to peasant life and traditional Jewish festivities. |
