THE PRICE OF FAME
- Munch, Tiger and Bear
- Dürer, Five Lansquenets
- Bonnard, Dans la Rue
- Vuillard, La Couturiére
- Bellows, The Hold-Up
- Magritte, Oreille-Cloche
- Canaletto, Landscape
- Cezanne, Self-Portrait at the Easel
- Matisse, Repos du Modèle
- Pissarro, Rue Saint-Romaine
- Tiepolo, Three Soldiers
- Rouault, L’Enfant de la Balle
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette
- Jongkind, Jetée en Bois
- after Brueghel, Saint Jerome
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Piranesi, The Villa Albani
- after Rubens, St. Mary Magdalene
- Millet, La Fileuse Auvergnate
- Beckmann, Jacob Wrestles
- Corot, Environs de Rome
- Tissot, Le Matin
- Whistler, Little Dorothy
- Géricault, Cheval Anglais
- Ostade, The Barn
- Hogarth, A Chorus of Singers
- Watteau & Thomassin, Femme
- Goya, Nanny’s Boy
- Palmer, Herdsman’s Cottage
- Delacroix, Arabes d’Oran
- Sloan, Fifth Avenue Critics
- after Boucher, The Snare
- after da Vinci, Caricature Head
- Baskin, Bird-Man
- after Turner, In the Campagna
- after Raphael, A Muse
- Kirchner, Railway Curve
- Daumier, Eh, Eh ? Petit Gredin…
- Robert, Le Poteau
- Rowlandson, Wood Nymphs
- Doré, Lapplander Peasants
- van Dyck, Portrait of Brueghel
- after Constable, Mill Stream
- Rosa, Woman Walking to the Left
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17. Marc Chagall (1887-1987) Le Vixe |
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Le Vixe
Etching, 1925-26, from Maternité, 99 x 150 mm., Kornfeld 67. A fine impression on brownish velin with good margins, most unusually, pencil signed. The total edition of Maternité was 765 unsigned impressions, all of them congruent with this one – except that this one is signed. So it may be a proof or simply an impression Chagall signed for a friend – as he was sometimes known to do when there was no pencil-signed edition. With the title, we are dealing with a non-dictionary word. There are two possible cognates: vex and vixen. There is certainly a lot of vexation going on here -- the lamp swaying, the chair flying to hit a man in the stomach, the bottle upended, the houseplant tossed on its side – and the apparent cause of all the trouble is in an enraged attitude and wearing skirts. Perhaps the cognates come together.
