Marc Chagall, A view of the island, 1975

Marc Chagall 1887-1985

A view of the island, 1975

lithograph

42.5 × 32.5 cm

2017-09iv

Shakespeare’s play is set on an uninhabited island, a pre-Robinson-Crusoe-type island. Chagall’s half-page header to Act 1, scene 1, has little to do with the scene of the shipwreck that...

Provenance

acquired with the support of the Nina and Roger Charitable Trust

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