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Artist: Marc Chagall
Artist: Sandy Litchfield
"Paradis (Paradise), M 232/255, " an Original Color Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paradis (Paradise), M 232/255" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. his original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dessins pour La Bible." I...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Job en prières
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 "Job en prières" Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Maternité - Rare Book with Etchings by Marc Chagall - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
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-Pa...
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Paper, Etching

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Boaz wakes up and sees Ruth - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Femme avec Parapluie, Framed Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1964
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Femme avec Parapluie from Derriere le Miroir Year: 1964 Medium: Lithograph Size: 14.5 x 21.5 in. (36.83 x 54.61 cm) Frame Size: 23 ...
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1960s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Paradise - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ahaseurus banishes Vashti, Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Ahaseurus banishes Vashti from “Dessins pour la Bible” Verve Vol. X, Nos. 37-38, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris, 1960 Year: 1960...
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1960s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235" Original Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235, M 946" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This Chagall is a graphic piece, with black lines on a white paper. The main figure is a je...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Scène Biblique
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph printed in gray and black. Signed and numbered in pencil by Chagall, from an edition of 50.
Category

1970s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bulls and a Frog - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #106
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : Bulls and a Frog , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of the gallery a...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

1969 Marc Chagall 'The arrival of Spring" detail
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches ( 38.1 x 55.88 cm ) Image Size: 12 x 16 inches ( 30.48 x 40.64 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Adam et Ève et le Fruit Défendu (Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit)" Litho
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Adam et Ève et le Fruit Défendu (Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit), M 235/258," is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and pr...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Le Jeu des Acrobates, original lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe II"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm As published in Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned, as issued, from the edition of several thousand Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot/Gauss 401 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

L'inspiré Self Portrait Marc Chagall Valentina Vava Lithograph 1963 Mourlot 398
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Inspiration or L'inspiré - The artist and his wife, self-portrait. This is a self-portrait of the great artist, depicting him as lost in thought before one of his paintings, which is apparently related to his home country Russia, as suggested by the small figure in the lower right of the work. Chagall’s wife Valentina (“Vava”), who was also from Russia, is looking over his shoulder, full of longing. The small surreal elements that are characteristic of Chagall’s paintings are also present here: the silhouettes of the houses that seems to stick out of the painting and a figure with a flute or trombone standing on its head. Chagall Lithographe, Volume II of the catalogue raisonné of Chagall's lithographic work, see Mourlot 398, 1957-1962, Paris 1963, imprinted by Imprimerie Mourlot for the publisher André Sauret. A lithographic plate from the catalog that was published in 10,000 copies. Condition : Excellent Set inside a cream mount bearing brass cartellino Visible sheet size length 23cm, Height 31.50cm In a carved and gilded frame Frame size Length 44cm, Height 55.5cm The reverse with a paper label in Japanese Provenance : Private Collection, purchased with Lovers in Grey
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Rat and the Elephant - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #179
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Rat and the Elephant, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum 39 x 30 cm (c. 15.5 x 12 in) With COA of the gallery and photo...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Fables : The Frog and the Beef - Original etching - 1952
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Frog and the Beef Original etching Printed signature in the plate On vellum 31 x 24 cm at view (c. 12 x 10 in) Presented in tinted aluminium...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

"Cover of "Chagall Lithographe IV, " (M 729), " an Original Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cover of "Chagall Lithographe IV," (M 729)" an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. It is the original book cover for "Chagall Lithographe IV," catalogue and notes by Charles Sorlie...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Rencontre de Ruth et de Booz
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Rencontre de Ruth et de Booz Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Woman Angel - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Édit...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Naomi and her daughters-in-law - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Rachel - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ruth aux pieds de Booz
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Ruth aux pieds de Booz Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph 1983 Printed by Mourlot Dimensions: 48 x 65 cm Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (Epreuve D'artiste, Artist proof) asi...
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1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall Etching, 'Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh', 1956
Located in Miami, FL
This beautifully detailed etching from Chagall's 'The Bible' series. Most of the etchings from this series were executed between 1931 and 1939 with the last 2 pieces completed betwee...
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1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Etching

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Cain and Abel - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Death and The Lumberjack - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #101
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : Death and The Lumberjack, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of the ga...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

l' Ivrogne et sa Femme
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: l'Ivrogne et sa Femme Year: 1927 Medium: Original etching Edition: fom the unumbered edition of 200 Paper: Montval Laid paper Image ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Etching

La vierge d'Israel
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 "La vierge d'Israël" Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ruth glaneuse
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Ruth glaneuse Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Child and The Professor - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #104
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Child and The Professor , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

"Genesis-Angel of Paradise" Illustration for "The Bible" for Verve, Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Genesis-Angel of Paradise" Illustration for "The Bible" for Verve" is an original color lithograph by Marc Chagall. Chagall's characteristic way of rendering figures is seen up clos...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

La Tranchée - Etching by M. Chagall - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
La Tranchée is a beautiful black and white etching on watermarked BFK Rives paper, realized in 1958 by the artist Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - St. Paul de Vence, 1985). This is an ...
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1920s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching

Troyer - Rare Book Illustrated by Marc Chagall - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Troyer is an original Modern Rare book written by David Hofstein (Korostyshiv, 1889 – Mosca, 1952) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985) in 1922. ...
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1920s Surrealist Art

Materials

Paper, Photogravure

"Le Visage d'Israël (The Face of Israel), M 231, " an Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Visage d'Israël (The Face of Israel), M 231," is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. It was created as a part of "Verve, revue artistique et littéraire," Vol. X No 37-38. Thi...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Adam et Ève Chassés du Paradis Terrestre" Original Color Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Adam et Ève Chassés du Paradis Terrestre (Adam and Eve are Banished from Paradise), M 237/260" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original c...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tamar belle-fille de Juda
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Tamar belle-fille de Juda Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Isaiah
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: Isaiah Series: Bible Date: 1956 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 14" x 10.5" Framed Dimensions: 23 1/4 " x 19.5" Signature: Unsigned Editi...
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1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

OU EST LE JOUR ("LES POEMES")
Located in Aventura, FL
In 1968 several of Chagall's poems were published in the album "Les Poemes" (The Poems). He also illustrated this album, featuring a series of 24 woodcuts. Unsigned. From the edi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Woodcut, Paper

Les Ames Mortes by N. Gogol - Complete Suite by Marc Chagall - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Les Ames mortes (by N. Gogol) is a very rare suite of etchings realized by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Complete set of 96 etchings hors-texte and 11 etched vignettes en-texte for the ...
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1940s Surrealist Art

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Etching

The Bird Harmed by an Arrow - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #108
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Bird Harmed by an Arrow , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of th...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

"Front Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III, " M 577, " Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Front Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III," M 577" is an original Lithograph by Marc Chagall. This painting is primarily red with black lines defining the figures and objects. Followi...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Job en Prière (Job Praying), " Original colored Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Job en Prière (Job Praying), M 253/276" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dessins pour La...
Category

1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Les Danseurs à la Lune - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 35 prints. Rare and precious artwork by Chagall, in excellent conditions. Ref. Cat. Cramer, n. 32 Image dimensions : 30.5 x 24 cm
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

"Eve Incurs God's Displeasure (M. 236), " Original Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Eve Incurs God's Displeasure" is an original double sided lithograph by Marc Chagall. On recto the print features the biblical story of Eve being scolded by God for her sin in the G...
Category

1960s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jeremiah's Lamentations, from "The Bible"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: Jeremiah's Lamentations from "The Bible" Publication: Verve, no. 33-34 Year : 1956 Medium: Orig...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law, from Drawings for the Bible
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Naomi and Her Daughters-in-Law Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered ...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Lithograph

La Tombe du Père - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
La Tombe du Pére or The Father's Grave is a wonderful and rare dry-point, hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin and hand-numbered on the lower left margin by Marc Chagall. ...
Category

1920s Surrealist Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching 1958 Printed by Tériade Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm Handsigned and numbered handcolored Edition: 100 Reference: Cramer 30. Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Etching

Offering, Framed Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression from the book of Marc Chagall's (Russian, 1887-1985) lithographs. Published in 1960 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte-Carlo. From 1960 to 1974 Chagall produced 28 lithographs for the six volumes of the Lithographs Catalogue Raisonné. Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Offering Year: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Size: 12 in. x 9 in. (30.48 cm x 22.86 cm) Frame: 20 x 17 inches Editor: Andre Sauret Publisher: George Braziller...
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1960s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall “Ten Commandments”
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) “Ten Commandments” Original Etching with Water Color numbered 46/100 on the lower left margin,Paper Monogrammed by hand of M...
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Late 20th Century Art

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Watercolor, Etching

Marc Chagall-Derriere Le Miroir no. 27-28 Cover-15" x 11"-Lithograph-Modernism
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: DLM27 Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Derriere Le Miroir no. 27-28 Cover Year: Unknown Signed: No Medium: Lithograph Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 10.25...
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21st Century and Contemporary Art

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Lithograph

Noémi et ses belles-filles
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Noémi et ses belles-filles Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Paris Opera Ceiling - Institute of Artistic Achievement.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster (provenance unknown). Measures 9 x 13 inches and is Unframed. Good Condition.
Category

Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Cain and Abel
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall Cain and Abel Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Original lithograph Title: Cain and Abel Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible From VERVE, Vol. X, No...
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1960s Art

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Lithograph

"Carte de Voeux #731, " Lithograph by Marc Chagall in Chagall Catalog Raisonne
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carte de Voeux #731" is an original lithograph greeting card by Marc Chagall. It is in the Chagall Catalogue Raisonne and is from a rare edition of only 200. It depicts a face and a bird in Chagall's signature whimsical modernist style. 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" art 21" x 18 1/4" frame Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, the eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family led by his father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. The family home on Pokrovskaya Street is now the Marc Chagall Museum...
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1970s Modern Art

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Lithograph, Lucite

POEMES: GRAVURES V
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodcut on Japon Nacré paper. Hand signed and numbered (of 26) by the artist. From a total edition of 238: 26 on Japon Nacré numbered 1-26, 200 on Rives numbered 27-226, 12 on Rives...
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1960s Surrealist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Ruth at the Feet of Boaz
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: Ruth at the Feet of Boaz Series: Bible Date: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 13 15/16 x 10 7/16 inches...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

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