Visually stunning and incredibly captivating, Chagall stirs our emotions and unearths our most romantic sentiments with Les Pavots Rouges. The foreground is ablaze with a lush vase of poppies and wildflowers, blending shades of sun yellows, violets, white, marigolds, and bright red. The checkered vase is a soft periwinkle blue, complementing the background which extends beyond in a vast landscape. The green, rolling hills and church steeple serve to anchor the composition, while we see the two lovers in embrace, floating above for all to see. The work conveys a sense of optimism and lightness which swirls around the couple in the early evening sky.

Created in 1949, this work was engraved by Charles Sorlier after an original work by Marc Chagall. Published by Editions Maeght, Paris and numbered 342/400 in pencil in the lower left margin out of an edition of 400 numbered works (aside from a few artist's proofs). Hand signed by Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin.

1. Sorlier, Charles. Chagall Lithographs, Vol. V 1974 - 1979, Crown Publishers, Inc: New York, 1984. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. CS 2 on pg. 191.