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Le Vieillard et le chevreau
© Marc Chagall/Bildupphovsrätt 2026
Le Vieillard et le chevreau
Le Vieillard et le chevreau
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Le Vieillard et le chevreau

by Marc Chagall
Artist (Ryssland, 1887 - 1985)
Alternate Title
  • Gubben och geten
  • The Old Man and the Goat
Date1930
MediumTempera and pastel on cardboard
DimensionsBildmått: 52 × 66 cm Ram: 70,5 × 85,5 × 7 cm
Classification
Credit LineDonation 1989 enligt testamente från Gerard Bonnier
On view
Stockholm
RoomStudy Gallery 08: Screen 16
Object NumberMOM 437
CollectionsThe Gerard Bonnier Collection
About the artworkAn old man and a kid. The scene radiates tenderness. When Marc Chagall painted this picture he was 43 and had lived in Paris for nearly a decade. Even before the war broke out in 1914, he had lived and worked among the cubists. It was long since he had been to his childhood town, Vitebsk in Belarus. In Vitebsk there were lots of queer old fellows who played the violin and told stories, and lots of goats. The old man and the goat appear to be floating towards the snow (cloud?) in the background. That's often how it is in Chagall's pictures. His childhood memories are like stories. And the storybook characters don't follow the laws of physics. That's why they never die. Selected exhibition history Marc Chagall (1982-1983) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Waldemarsudde - Moderna klassiker (2002-2003) Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ur Gerard Bonniers samling (1968) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Marc Chagall : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 25/9 - 5/12 1982]Ur Gerard Bonniers samling : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : [6.6 - 18.8 1968]Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Det fantastiska och fruktansvärdaModerna klassiker : Moderna Museet c/o Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde : 28/9 2002 - 16/2 2003 Bibliography Meyer, Franz, Marc Chagall Leben und Werk, Verlag M. Du Mont Schauberg, Köln 1961, ill. nr 570. Öhman, Nina (red), Donation Gerard Bonnier, Årsbok för statens konstmuseer nr. 35, Stockholm 1989, s 48-50, ill. s 51. Taube, Maria, Kärleken och döden: Konst på Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2002, s 16, ill. s 17.