1911
Marc Chagall, Bride with a Fan (1911), oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1911 Europe is already loading the rifle backstage. Yet here is this bride, hovering intact above history, carried by pigment and impossible tenderness. I look at her and think of every person who has ever tried to protect beauty with their bare hands. The fan trembles slightly. The village waits below like folded paper. The fiddler keeps playing against the coming century. ----- This ekphrastic piece, based on the Chagall artwork above, was proposed by those anxious grooms over at DVerse Poets Pub . ©2026 Christopher Reilley I would love to know what you thought about this piece. Please consider leaving a comment.
