Le Grand Cirque is an oil and gouache on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall created in 1956. it is held in a private collection.

[3] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings.

[4] Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Georges Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Kees van Dongen, and Fernand Léger.

[4] At least until 1974 Le Grand Cirque was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York.

[5] In 2007 the painting was acquired from the Gustave Stern Foundation and Sold at Sotheby’s, New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland.