Les Amoureux au Bouquet de Fleurs

As one of the most important 20th-century surrealist painters representative of the School of Paris, Marc Chagall created a unique, emotionally rich artistic language with an oeuvre of vivid, fantastical, and childlike works. He was praised by Pablo Picasso as the only painter in the world after Henri Matisse who truly understood color. Les Amoureux au Bouquet de Fleurs represents a typical Chagall theme created in signature Chagall style. With abstract, lyrical brushstrokes and bright, high-contrast colors, the painting depicts a bouquet of flowers, symbolic of fiery emotions, and lovers — Chagall and his wife Bella—in intimate embrace, symbolizing the artist’s intense ardor for his beloved as well as a celebration of the love and life of humanity. After the Second World War, Chagall’s life changed drastically, and his works were filled with a somber blue color, and it was difficult to see such a romantic and bright style as in the early days.