
Marc Chagall The Museum of Modern Art-10.25" x 7.75"-Book-1946-Modernism-White
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Marc ChagallMarc Chagall The Museum of Modern Art-10.25" x 7.75"-Book-1946-Modernism-White1946
1946
About the Item
- Creator:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French)
- Creation Year:1946
- Dimensions:Height: 10.25 in (26.04 cm)Width: 7.75 in (19.69 cm)
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- Condition:A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling.
- Gallery Location:Brooklyn, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: BK08421stDibs: LU129416654342
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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