The Circus Rider

1. Marc Chagall, to Jan. 1934 [letter to the artist from Kunsthalle Basel, Jan. 18, 1934, in curatorial file]. Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, by 1936 [this and the following according to letter from Mrs. Gilbert Chapman, Nov. 27, 1974, in curatorial file]; sold to Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Marc Chagall, November 4–December 3, 1933, p. 17, cat. 98, as L’acrobate, 1932–1933.
• Chicago, Arts Club, April 1939.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Marc Chagall, January 2–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 36, as The Circus Rider, n.d.
• Sarasota, Fla., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The Circus in Art, January 20–March 6, 1977, n.p. (ill.), as Circus Rider, c. 1927; traveled to Gainesville, Fla., University of Florida Gallery, March 20–April 20, 1977.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, June 3–August 24, 2003, cat. 8.

• Kunsthalle Basel, Marc Chagall, exh. cat. (Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1933), p. 17, cat. 98, as L’acrobate, 1932–1933.
• Arts Club, Marc Chagall, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1945), n.p., cat. 36, as The Circus Rider, n.d.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 74.
• John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The Circus in Art, exh. cat. (Sarasota, Fla.: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1977), n.p. (ill.), as Circus Rider, c. 1927.
• A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1980), p. 36, no. 1D2.
• Sadye Tune Wilson, Else Regensteiner: Biography of a Weaver (Nashville, Tenn.: Tunstede, 1997), p. 101 (ill.), as The Circus Rider, c. 1927.
• Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall, 1887–1985 (Cologne: Taschen, 1998), p. 133 (ill.), as Circus Rider, 1927.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Poetics of Scale: Small-Sized Works from the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh. checklist (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), n.p., cat. 8 (ill.).

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