J. D. Bidaud - D’après Marc Chagall — Le Violoniste vert

J. D. Bidaud — After Marc Chagall — The Green Violinist

Oil on canvas. France. Dating: 1981. Period: 1980–1989.
Unframed dimensions: 116 cm in height × 73 cm in width.
Signed J. D. Bidaud and dated 1981 at the bottom right; annotated on the back.

This large canvas reworks the composition of Marc Chagall’s The Green Violinist: a musician with a green face and a purple coat dominates the houses of a village. The blue clouds, the secondary figures and the animals compose a poetic universe. The reproduction is signed and dated 1981 by J. D. Bidaud.

The oil on canvas reproduces the major colored divisions of the model. Holes, losses of material and occasional alterations are documented; the work is offered as is.

Created by J. D. Bidaud in 1981, this large canvas reworks Marc Chagall’s The Green Violinist, painted in 1923–1924 and held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Marc Chagall (1887–1985) created a poetic universe where memories of Vitebsk, music, animals and weightless figures mingle. The violinist, linked to village life and Jewish culture, is an emblematic motif. This Chagall-based interpretation reproduces the color contrasts and the imaginative richness in a particularly generous format.

Condition: A few holes and alterations in several places, with losses of material and surface marks. Sold as is; see close-ups.

Sold without frame.