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Marc ChagallMegacles Recognizes his Daughter During the Feast1962
1962
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Original lithograph printed in colors on Arches wove paper.
A superb impression of the definitive state, from the album edition of 250 (apart from the pencil-signed and numbered edition of 60). One of 44 color lithographs from the album illustrating the 2nd century text Daphnis & Chloe by the Greek author Longus, published by Editions Verve, Paris, 1962.
Catalog: Mourlot 347
With the vertical center fold (flattened) typical of this edition, otherwise in excellent condition, with bright, fresh colors, printed to the edges of the sheet.
In 1959 Efstratios Tériade, the publisher of the vastly influential 20th century art review Verve, approached Chagall suggesting to him that he undertake a new project, illustration of the prose romance Daphnis & Chloe, the first known pastoral romance written by the 2nd century Greek author Longus. Idyllic in nature, the poem tells the improbable but charming story of the love of Daphnis, a shepherd, the son of Hermes and a nymph (who was revered as the inventor of pastoral music), and the shepherdess Chloe. The idea of reviving and illustrating this story, which had been widely popular primarily in France and England throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, is one that greatly appealed to Chagall. He began his preparation by making two trips to Greece, traveling there to absorb the inspiration of the Greek landscape. Over the course of three years Chagall worked on this project creating images which glow with an almost ecstatic color in which he exploits the whole range of tones and textures of lithography. In Daphnis & Chloe Chagall succeeded in transforming a personal dream into a universal Eden where the figures seem to float in an atmosphere of infinite happiness whose warmth is all- pervasive. The forty-two lithographs which comprise the album have since their release been heralded as the very greatest achievement of Chagall’s entire graphic oeuvre. In the introduction to the set in the Mourlot catalogue raisonné it is referred to as “the most important graphic work that Marc Chagall has created thus far.” It remains today the pinnacle of his work in this medium, the shimmering lithographs continue to be revered as amongst the master prints of the mid-twentieth century.
- Creator:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French)
- Creation Year:1962
- Dimensions:Height: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)Width: 25.25 in (64.14 cm)
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- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
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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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