"Tribe of Levi" Original Sorlier Lithograph Judaica Stained Glass Hebrew Window

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(after) Marc Chagall
"Tribe of Levi" Original Sorlier Lithograph Judaica Stained Glass Hebrew Window
1961

Name: "Tribe of Levi" Original Sorlier Lithograph Judaica Stained Glass Hebrew Window
Brand: (after) Marc Chagall
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Printed on fine Arches Paper. Hand numbered in pencil in Roman numerals. signed in the plate. Tribe of Levi, published by Mourlot, Paris and printed by Charles Sorlier, Paris. Created in 1964, The Tribe of Levi was part of a series of twelve lithographs which Chagall designed after the stain glass windows he created for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center located just outside of Jerusalem. The work was engraved and printed by Charles Sorlier in collaboration with Marc Chagall on Arches wove paper; in the lower left of the image, ‘CH. SORLIER GRAV. LITH.’ this also bears a detached label verso (from a previous framing) from Wally Findlay Galleries. Marc Chagall The Tribe of Levi (from The Twelve Maquettes of Stained Glass Windows for Jerusalem), 1964 is documented and referenced in the catalogue raisonnés. 1) Leymarie, Jean, Marc Chagall The Jerusalem Windows, 1975, listed on pages 17-23. 2) Sorlier, Charles, Chagall Lithographs, 1974-79, 1984, listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné CS 14. Biography Mark Zakharovich Shagal, or Marc Chagall, was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Belorussia. the grandfather taught the boy religion, instilling in him love for religion and the knowledge of the Torah. In 1906, Chagall left the Jewish elementary school he attended and began studying at Yehuda Pen's school of painting in Vitebsk. in 1907 Chagall applied to and was accepted to the school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St. Petersburg, directed by Nikolai Roerich. Dissatisfied with the school, he transferred to Zvantseva's School, where he studied with Mstislav Dobuzhinskii and Lev Bakst. In 1910 he moved to Paris and found a place in the famous "La Ruche" (Beehive) in the Vaugirard district, where he met the poets Blaise Cendrars and Guillaume Apollinaire, and the painters Chaim Soutine, Fernand Leger, and Robert Delaunay. an eccentric three-storey circular building like a large beehive; according to the sculptor Ossip Zadkine. It had never been intended to last this long, nor had it ever been meant for human habitation, but few buildings have housed such a wealth of talent. For a time, it was home to Zadkine, Hamnett, Moise Kisling, Marc Chagall, Alexander Archipenko, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Jacob, and, according to some books, Modigliani and Brancusi, Chagall always stressed the importance of Paris for his development: "In Paris, it seems to me, I have found everything, but above all, the art of craftsmanship. I owe all that I have achieved to Paris, to France, whose nature, men, the very air, were the true school of my life and art." Chagall's exposure to Cubism resulted in his attempts to incorporate the Cubist multiple points of view and geometrical shapes into his compositions, as can be seen in two of his best known early paintings, Me and My Village (1911) and Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (1912-13). Two years later, Chagall contributed to the Salon des Independants and Salon d' automne as well as to Larionov's Donkey's Tail exhibition in Moscow. In 1913 participated in the Target exhibition and in 1914 had his first one-man show at the Galerie der Sturm in Berlin. The same year Chagall returned to Russia and went to Vitebsk, where he married Bella Rosenberg who would become an inspiration for many of his works. From Vitebsk, the married couple moved to St. Petersburg (at that time Petrograd). Chagall contributed to the Exhibition of Painting, 1915, and a year later sent over forty paintings to the Jack of Diamonds show in Moscow. After the Revolution Chagall was active as an art educator. He moved back to Vitebsk and in 1919 became a founder, director, and the most popular teacher at the Vitebsk Academy. However, because he wanted the school to express all points of view on art, he was ousted by the Malevich fraction (Suprematists) and left Vitebsk for Moscow. In Moscow, Chagall collaborated with the Kamernyi State Jewish Theater and with the Habimah Theatre. He left Russia in 1922 and after a year in Berlin, settled in Paris in 1923. In 1924 he had the first major retrospective at the Galerie Barbazanges-Hoderbart. In the mid twenties produced illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables. Visited Palestine (1931), Holland (1932) Spain (1934-5), Poland (1935), and Italy (1937); in 1941 had to leave Germany and seek shelter in the United States at the invitation of the museum of modern art in new york city. The death of Bella stopped Chagall's creativity for many months. After his return to France in 1948, the artist decided to move to the south of France and in 1950 he settled in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Two years later, he married Valentine ("Vava") Brodskii. His new wife was an important factor in Chagall's recovery as a painter. She encouraged him to undertake large artisitc projects, for instance the cycle Biblical Message. Finished in 1966 and installed seven years later in the National Museum of the Marc Chagall Biblical Message in Nice, the paintings (see a selection below) astonish with their vivid colors and their poetic interpretations of the Biblical texts. Among the largest projects was the decoration of the ceiling of the Paris Opera (1964), and the murals for the Metropolitan Opera in New York (1965). He also explored the technique of stained-glass, designing windows for the Cathedral in Metz (1959-62), for the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem (1960-1), for the Cathedral at Reims (1974), and for Saint Etienne Church at Mayence (1978-81). In the West, Chagall had countless exhibitions and retrospectives. In Russia, after many years of silence and disregard for the artist, an exhibition of Chagall's works from private collections was organized in Novgorod in 1968, and five years later Chagall was invited to visit Moscow in connection with a small retrospective of his work. Finally, on the centenary of the artist's birth a large exhibition opened at Pushkin Museum in Moscow, and a Chagall Museum was opened in Vitebsk. His print work was published by fernand mourlot amongst others.

Creator:
(after) Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French, Russian)
Creation Year:
1961
Dimensions:
Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 20.75 in (52.71 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
minor wear, minor toning.
Gallery Location:
Surfside, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3823282341

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