Marc Chagall Ceramic Tile
Coffee Table
Circa Late 1940’s / early 1950’s, France
The tiles used to decorate
the top of this coffee table
were a gift from renowned artist Marc Chagall to his friend,
a German Oscar winning film producer, who had a coffee table made with them.
Done in Chagall’s favorite
colors: red, coral and greens.
Rare one-of-a-kind coffee
table, dark wood frame base with colorful,
iridescent subway style ceramic tiles.
Sadly, any signature would likely be on the underside of the tiles.
For more tile topped coffee
tables, see our collection by Roger Capron, also from this era.
Dimensions: 31 1/4" x 51 3/4",
21 3/4" high
Condition: In very good
original condition.
Item # FADOT175: Price: $
3,500.
Marc Chagall
Biography:
Chagall's works fit into several modern art categories.
He took part in the movements of the Paris art world which preceded World War
I
and was thus involved with avant-garde currents. However, his work always
found
itself on the margins of these movements and emerging trends, including Cubism
and Fauvism. He was closely associated with the Paris School.
For Chagall
there was a special primal symbolism in ceramics, using the earth and
transforming it through fire. In 1952 in the preface to an exhibition in New
York, he described the experience:
“These few
pieces, these few examples in ceramics, are a kind of appetizer: the result of
my life in the south of France where the significance of this craft is still
felt so strongly. Even the earth I stand on exudes light. She looks at me
looks at me lovingly as if she wants to call me. I wanted to feel this earth
just like the craftsman old and avoid any random ornamentation and, keeping
within the limits of ceramics, I wanted to breathe the resonance of a
simultaneously close yet distant art into it…”
"All colors are
the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." Marc
Chagall
