The artwork titled “Tchitchikov’s arrival to town N” is a distinguished piece by the artist Marc Chagall, created circa 1923 in Paris, France. This etching on paper belongs to the Naïve Art (Primitivism) movement and serves as an illustration, part of the “Dead Souls” series. Presently, the artwork is housed in the Tretyakov Gallery, located in Moscow, Russia.
The artwork depicts an array of characters and settings, rendered in the artist’s distinctive and whimsical style. To the left, two figures appear to interact near a building labeled with the word “CABAK”, indicating a social establishment. Towards the center, the landscape slopes down towards a small town with stylized buildings and churches, with birds flying overhead. On the right side, a man in a cart pulled by a horse encounters another character at what appears to be a gate or entranceway, with two large roosters perched above. The scene is replete with lively, animated details, transporting the viewer into a fantastical representation of Tchitchikov’s arrival, a theme derived from the literary work “Dead Souls” by Nikolai Gogol.
