Marc Chagall - Cantique des cantiques III (1960) Oil on Paper on Canvas - 149 x 210 cm Nice - Musée national Marc Chagall The composition, built on three large round shapes that obviously evoke breasts and a woman's stomach, is also cut in half by a horizon line that delimits two distinct parts. Chagall seems to have wanted to tell his story in this painting: the representation of Jerusalem, in the centre, is twofold: at the top, the city resembles the vision of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, with its ramparts. Below and upside down, it is Vitebsk, recognizable by the sanctuary with its green roof that
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