XXe Siecle, N. 34 (M . 608). Original color lithograph, 1970. 50 signed & numbered impressions plus 3000 unsigned impressions. This work seems to be an experiment in using overlays of color bands to make us focus on the process by which we puzzle out what the scene shows. At left, we can see a double portrait: two faces on one head. In the center, head facing towards the right, we see a profile of Chagall's familiar little calf/goat. Confronting it, in the next pink band to to the right, is a small a dog, but as our eye travels up the right side of the lithograph, we can see that the dog is sharing the space with a very large woman with large breasts pointing right while her head both looks back to the left and down to the lower right corner. In the blue band at the top, we can see a vilage full of small houses on a mountainous slope dotted with evergreen bushes or trees. The crossing bands of color—pink (vertical and horizontal), green (vertical, lower right), yellow (horizontal, upper center) and dark blue (horizontal, across the top)—complicate reading the scene and force us to act like scientists or detectives, searching the lithograph's phenomena in order to puzzle out its underlying realities. Image size: 300x240mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.