The Fox and the Grapes
"The fox who longed for grapes, beholds with pain
The tempting clusters were too high to gain;
Grieved in his heart he forced a careless smile,
And cried, ‘They’re sharp and hardly worth my while."
from the 1687 English translation of The Fables of La Fontaine
We are currently holding a Chagall exhibition which runs from 5-30th November and features, alongside a number of his other celebrated suites, the artist’s famous illustrations for The Fables of La Fontaine. In this particular picture, the story is actually conveyed by the negative space between the fantastically frustrated Mr Fox and his out-of-reach snack, the very distance confirming our suspicions that his assessment of the fruit could not, in fact, be further from the truth. Hand-coloured by Chagall himself, these grapes look nothing short of divine.
To view the whole bunch pick here
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