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Marc ChagallMaternité - Rare Book with Etchings by Marc Chagall - 19261926
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Maternité is an original Modern Rare book written by Marcel Arland (Varennes-sur-Amance, 1899 – Saint-Sauveur-sur-École, 1986) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985) in 1926.
Original Edition, published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris.
Format: in 8°.
960 numbered copies.
The book includes 95 pages with 5 full page etchings.
Good conditions, only some discoloration of the cover, as usual for this edition.
Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985). Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.
Marcel Arland (Varennes-sur-Amance, 1899 - Saint-Sauveur-sur-École, 1986). He was a French writer, essayist and literary critic. He launched with René Crevel and Roger Vitrac Aventure, a small newspaper that supported Dadaism. Arland found this support too violent and founded another sheet, Dés, which only lasted two issues. One of his earliest essays, Un nouveau mal du siècle, drew attention to him. His critical work of him was considerable, both for his chronicles at the Nouvelle Revue Française (of which he was director in the years 1968-1977) and for his prefaces and his anthologies of French poetry and prose. In 1952 he published an autobiographical short story, La Consolation du voyageur. He received the Goncourt Prize in 1930 for L'Ordre. He also received the Grand Prix national des lettres in 1960 and the Grand Prix of literature of the French Academy, of which he was elected a member in 1968.
- Creator:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French)
- Creation Year:1926
- Dimensions:Height: 8.47 in (21.5 cm)Width: 6.3 in (16 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
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Marc Chagall
Described by art critic Robert Hughes as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century," the Russian-French modernist Marc Chagall worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, he developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art.
Born Moishe Segal in 1887, in Belarus (then part of the Russian empire), Chagall is often celebrated for his figurative paintings, but he also produced stained-glass windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, in France; for the United Nations, in New York; and for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, as well as book illustrations, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine-art prints. Characterized by a bold color palette and whimsical imagery, his works are often narrative, depicting small-village scenes and quotidian moments of peasant life, as in his late painting The Flight into Egypt from 1980.
Before World War I, Chagall traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. When the conflict broke out, he returned to Soviet-occupied Belarus, where he founded the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He fled to the United States during World War II but in 1947 returned to France, where he spent the rest of his life. His peripatetic career left its mark on his style, which was distinctly international, incorporating elements from each of the cultures he experienced.
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