Nice and the Côte D'Azur "It is well know, and especially evident in this work, that the Mediterranean awakens in Chagall a sensation of well-being and plenitude just as the bright sun and flowers awaken in him the sense of freedom. In these gouaches, one rediscovers the caracters dear to Chagall: Those lovers in the firmament, those men whom Malaparte saw walking on "the roof of the storm, on the guttering of the clouds", the woman with flowers and the sirene, the most poignant symbol of Nice, There are also those visions, the memory of which pursude him from childhood, from his days in Vitebsk, which he called the " invisible, supposedly illogical form of the object" and which we come to perceive like him. Above all, there the midday sun and the brillancy of his flowers..." Jean Adhémar
