‘The Concert’ – A tribute to Chagall by Geert Jan Jansen
This vibrant painting by
Geert Jan Jansen, once a famed art forger turned independent artist, pays homage to Marc Chagall’s poetic world of dreamlike colour and mystical love. Inspired by Chagall’s The Concert from 1957, Jansen captures the floating intimacy, layered symbolism, and glowing palette that made Chagall’s work both personal and transcendent.
In Chagall’s original painting, lovers drift in a boat beneath a full moon, travelling from the cool blue of the earthly city toward a radiant realm of musicians. Jansen echoes this journey: the brushwork is expressive, the colour fields bold and spiritual. The lovers—rendered in soft reds—hover between earth and sky, enveloped by vertical bands of light and sound that pulse like music through the canvas.
From forgery to homage
Once known for mimicking the masters,
Jansen has since transformed his practice into one of celebration. With this work, he doesn’t copy Chagall—he converses with him. The floating figures, disjointed yet tender, the tilted perspective, the lyrical moonlight—it all speaks of reverence, not reproduction.
Chagall once said that colour itself could be “a kind of first aid for those who view his work.” That energy lives on here. The lovers’ voyage across time and tone is made timeless through Jansen’s hand, which—though forged in deception—now paints in honesty.
Painting size: 49 x 85 cm / 19.3 x 33.5 inch
Frame size: 62 x 98 cm / 9.6 x 38.6 inch
Looking to bring poetic colour and layered meaning into your space? This work, in the spirit of Chagall and with the hand of a man who once stood behind the signature, offers not just a painting—but a story of reinvention, love, and artistic transformation.