Marc Chagall – Écuyère Acrobate, 1959

Few artists in the 20th century managed to fuse spirituality, memory, and modernity with the visionary grace of Marc Chagall. Born in 1887 in a Hasidic village in Tsarist Russia, Chagall transformed his heritage—rooted in Jewish mysticism and folklore—into a poetic, dreamlike visual language that traversed Cubism, Fauvism, Symbolism, and Surrealism without ever fully belonging to any one movement.

His work opens a deeply personal world, where colors become emotion and figures often appear suspended, capturing something of the invisible. As poet André Breton once noted, “With Chagall, metaphor became flesh.”

It is within this context that Écuyère Acrobate takes its place—an original lithograph from 1959, printed on Arches paper and signed and numbered by hand in a rare edition of only 40. The piece reflects Chagall’s enduring fascination with the world of the circus—not as mere entertainment, but as a symbolic realm where the human figure engages with balance, fragility, and transcendence. The female acrobat here embodies the tension between discipline and dream, between reality and metamorphosis.

This work by Marc Chagall is recorded in the authoritative catalogue raisonné Mourlot (no. 210) and offers a rare opportunity to connect intimately with the inner world of one of the most beloved and iconic artists of the last century.

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