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Green Dream

Green Dream

Artist/Maker (French, born in Russia, 1887–1985)
Date1945
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
Frame: 41 7/8 × 35 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (106.4 × 91.1 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joseph and Enid Bissett
Object number1956.24
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisMore Information
In this work the figure of a female nude—the artist’s companion Virginia Haggard McNeil—merges with the deep green hill on which she reclines, surrounded by fruit and flowers, symbols of fertility. Marc Chagall painted this scene in the wake of several traumas, including the death of his beloved wife Bella in 1944, and the horrors of World War II. A Russian Jew who had been working in Paris among notable artistic contemporaries such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger, Chagall fled to the United States in 1941 to escape Nazi persecution.
Provenance(Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York); purchased 1946 by Joseph and Enid Bissett, New York; by gift 1956 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin OHExhibition History
Unknown Title
  • Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York ( 1946-02 - 1946-02 )
What is Modern Art?
  • The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (March 6, 1960 - March 27, 1960 )
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  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 6, 2013 - June 22, 2014 )
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