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Mollusc block
Glass urn from the Necropolis of via Cavour, Biella
Vasi Piroga
Cinerary urn and cerrione necropolis equipment
Mummy sarcophagus
Bowl with two hummingbirds
Statuette of coquero
Clay bowl imitating a pumpkin
Anthropomorphic bottle warrior moche
Male figure
Female statuette of a praying woman
Campaniforma Jar
Clay head with almond-shaped eyes and headdress
Sunshine
Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Mountain landscape with cows
Madonna with child
Triptych Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Marina
The drummer
The sleep test
Reflections of a hungry
Between colors and vapors
Judith and Holofernes
Monument to Lorenzo Delleani
Mollusc block
Glass urn from the Necropolis of via Cavour, Biella
Vasi Piroga
Cinerary urn and cerrione necropolis equipment
Mummy sarcophagus
Bowl with two hummingbirds
Statuette of coquero
Clay bowl imitating a pumpkin
Anthropomorphic bottle warrior moche
Male figure
Female statuette of a praying woman
Campaniforma Jar
Clay head with almond-shaped eyes and headdress
Sunshine
Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Mountain landscape with cows
Madonna with child
Triptych Virgin of the Rocks copy from Leonardo
Marina
The drummer
The sleep test
Reflections of a hungry
Between colors and vapors
Judith and Holofernes
Monument to Lorenzo Delleani

The drummer

Marc Chagall

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Biellese Territory Museum

Biellese Territory Museum

Via Q. Sella, 54/b, Biella

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The space in which the great figure of the drummer is placed has abandoned any logic of structuring and proportionality. The dimensional relationships of characters, animals and architectures as well as the chromatic layers of intense tones mainly blue, red and yellow contribute to the creation of a lively and visionary representation in which once again the figure of a musician, positioned between heaven and earth, triumphs over everything. The iconographies of the peasant women, of the houses with wooden roofs, of the donkeys and of the cows, alluding to life in the artist's native town, inhabit a kaleidoscopic vision impregnated by the now remote memories of childhood, but always and in any case well alive in the heart and in the eyes of the artist and that indeed, in the distance from his homeland, they recall and exalt each other. The work was dated to the years following 1948 when Chagall returned to France from the United States, where he had been forced to emigrate, and it is precisely in these years that numerous guaches works characterized by a dense and compact chromatic material date back. In the 1940s, during his stay in America, the painter matured a strong and impulsive use of color together with a metaphorical and mythicizing reworking of some personal iconographic themes, all elements present in the painting from the Lucci collection. A production whose results are in full contradiction with the sweet and pastoral lyricism of the previous period.
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Title: The drummer

Author: Marc Chagall

Date: 1950

Technique: Gouache on lined paper

Displayed in: Biellese Territory Museum

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