La Flute Enchantee

CCAC #: 0046
Artwork title: La Flute Enchantee
Artist(s): Marc Chagall
Year made: 1967
Artwork type: Paper
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Framed dimensions (in mm): 1265 x 925
Edition: Edition of 200
Source: Donated by the artist's granddaughters, Bella and Meret Meyer
Year acquired: 2009
Installation type: Movable artwork
Location area: On private display
Signage:

This work was inspired by a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a Singspiel opera that Mozart completed in the year of his death. The colours of Chagall’s evocative interpretation are saturated and alive, suggesting movement, and conveying rhythm of a spirited quality.


CCAC 434072

Photographer: Staff
Photo copyright: CCT

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