The artwork titled “The Story of the Rooster. The little goat,” created by Marc Chagall, is an illustration that adheres to the principles of the Naïve Art (Primitivism) movement. The piece is housed in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, France, and measures 15.5 x 11.7 cm.
The artwork consists of two pages from a book, with text on the left-hand side written in Yiddish. The right-hand side features an illustration depicting a rooster at the top of a staircase and a goat lying on the ground at the bottom of the stairs, all enclosed within an ovular frame. The lines and forms are simple and stylized, in keeping with Chagall’s distinctive approach to Primitivism. The scene suggests a narrative or fable-like quality, characteristic of Chagall’s storytelling through art.
