001 - Fleurs Devant le Clocher, 1967

"Fluers Devant le Clocher" is a gouache, watercolor, colored wax crayons and pencil on paper laid down on canvas created by Marc Chagall in 1967. The artwork is signed 'Marc Chagall' lower right. The artwork ships framed in a custom ornate frame and has a framed size of 36.5 x 32".

Marc Chagall is one of the great luminaries of 20th-century art—a painter of dreams, memory, and devotion. Russian-born and later a naturalized French citizen, Chagall fused the folk mysticism of his Jewish heritage with the avant-garde languages of Cubism, Fauvism, and Surrealism to create a body of work that is deeply personal and universally resonant. His art is inseparable from poetry and music, and his ability to transcend time and geography has earned him a singular place in art history.

By the 1960s, Chagall had reached the peak of his international acclaim. He was undertaking prestigious commissions for stained-glass windows and murals (including the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris), while continuing to create paintings rich in color, myth, and symbolic narrative.

This 1967 painting is a quintessential example of Chagall’s late-career mastery—radiant with color, romance, and memory. At its center is a luminous bouquet, exuberantly alive, occupying a window space that opens out onto a sunlit southern French landscape of fields, mountains, and a distant church bell tower. In the lower left, the quiet presence of a female figure—perhaps a muse, a memory, or a symbol of the artist’s wife — adds emotional gravity and narrative intrigue.

This composition, structurally anchored in the motif of the open window, was a favorite of Chagall’s, a visual metaphor for the soul, memory, and transcendence. The juxtaposition of the intimate and the infinite — the bouquet and the sweeping landscape — creates a dialogue between interior and exterior, personal and universal. The painting bears all the hallmarks of Chagall’s mature period: fluid drawing, vibrant and intuitive use of color, and a dreamlike spatial logic that invites the viewer into a timeless, elevated world.

In Chagall’s iconography, the bouquet is not simply decorative; it is an offering, a celebration, and a symbol of love. It often functions as a bridge between this world and the spiritual. Here, the bouquet’s scale and placement give it monumental presence, while the landscape beyond the window suggests both the physical beauty of the South of France (where Chagall lived and worked from the 1950s onward) and an inner landscape of recollection and hope.
The female figure in the corner anchors the painting emotionally and may embody an eternal feminine principle—a witness to, or guardian of, the artist’s inner world. The church tower in the background, a recurring motif in Chagall’s village scenes, adds a spiritual resonance and a quiet allusion to rootedness, continuity, and community.

Important notes about this painting - This is an exceptional painting from one of the most celebrated periods in Chagall’s life, marked by complete technical command and emotional depth. The bouquet, window, landscape, and female figure are among Chagall’s most iconic and collectible motifs, rendered here with clarity and grace. The painting is both visually spectacular and deeply poetic—an artwork that reveals new depths with every viewing. Chagall's market remains exceptionally strong and international, with demand from both seasoned collectors and major institutions. This is a centerpiece artwork — ideally scaled and vibrantly colored — that will elevate any collection or living space and resonate for generations.

Fleurs Devant le Clocher, 1967 is Marc Chagall at his lyrical best — an artist at peace, painting with joy, tenderness, and an eye toward the eternal. With its radiant bouquet, expansive view of the French countryside, and quiet figure watching from the corner, it invites the viewer into a space of wonder, beauty, and reflection.