Descripción
Lithographic reproduction by Charles Sourlier from a large original print, “The Magician of Paris”, 1970.
Due to its success, this poster was reprinted during the exhibition. As the stones used for the first print had worn away, the engraving had to be remade, which explains the slight differences between the two paintings.
On the occasion of his retrospective exhibition, Chagall had to provide the motif for a small poster based on the large poster he had made from a painting. To do this, he made the following four lithographs in order to have different options, which would later prove difficult. Paris becomes the subject of three of the designs. Chagall finally decided on the first one, which corresponds to what André Breton wrote: “Only with him does metaphor make its triumphal entry into modern painting.” This multicoloured juggler, who offers Paris modest flowers, is himself the dreamy vagabond of the world of painter-poets; He gives his most precious possessions to the capital of his adopted country, which denounces him: his love and his works. This lithograph was reproduced in small format to be used as a poster for an exhibition.
