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Out of Chaos
Ben Uri: 100 Years in London

Out of Chaos : Ben Uri: 100 Years in London

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marc Chagall, Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio, 1945-47

Marc Chagall 1887-1985

Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio, 1945-47
gouache, pencil, indian wash ink and indian ink on paper
51.2 x 36.3 cm
signed (lower left): 'Chagall'
2009-40
© The Estate of Marc Chagall
Photo: Bridgeman images

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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Edwin Mingard, Break, 2015
Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio was unveiled at a special exhibition to mark its acquisition, at Osborne Samuel in Mayfair in 2010, with a new text by Chagall expert Professor Ziva...
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Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio was unveiled at a special exhibition to mark its acquisition, at Osborne Samuel in Mayfair in 2010, with a new text by Chagall expert Professor Ziva Amishai-Maisels. Chagall's work was first exhibited at Ben Uri in 1934 and has since been shown on numerous occasions including Chagall and his Circle (2006) and From Russia to Paris: Chaïm Soutine and his Contemporaries in 2012, reconfigured as Soutine, Chagall and the School of Paris at Manchester Jewish Museum in 2013 simultaneous to the major Chagall show at Tate Liverpool. Most recently, it was loaned to the important Chagall retrospective in New York (2013), Milan (2014) and Brussels (2015). This important gouache, ink and pencil study was most likely executed in April 1945 when Chagall was in exile in New York due to the Nazi occupation. It was probably the first work he produced after coming out of mourning for his late wife, Bella (who had died suddenly in September 1944), and was created in direct response to seeing the horrors of the concentration camps revealed through newspapers and Pathé newsreels. Previously, Chagall's crucifixions had symbolised the Nazi's Jewish victims in order to remind Christians that Christ was a Jew and they should stop persecuting his brothers. However, here Chagall incorporates factual information about the Holocaust for the first time. The clock in the top right of the study is missing its minute and hour hands, casting this moment in history as the end of time - the apocalypse. Below, a series of complex and horrific scenes uncover the extent of Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, among them another crucifixion, a hanging and a boatload of refugees.
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Provenance

acquired in 2009 supported by Miriam and Richard Borchard, Sir Michael and Lady Morven Heller, and an anonymous donor, and benefitting from the advice of Lionel Pissarro and Art Fund

Exhibitions

Marc Chagall, una retrospettiva dal 1908 al 1985;Cross Purposes: Shock and Contemplation in Images of the Crucifixion;Chagall: Love, War, and Exile;Chagall

Literature

Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., 'Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London' (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 102-103.
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