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Period: 1950s
Nude of Woman - Zincography by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original modern artwork realized the 1950s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original zincography on Ivory paper. Image Dimensions: ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Nude of Woman - Zincography by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original modern artwork realized the 1950s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original zincography on Ivory paper. Image Dimensions: ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Landscape - Zincography by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized the 1950s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original zincography on Ivory paper. Image Dimensions: 16 x...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Paper
City Street - Zincography by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
City Street is an original modern artwork realized the 1950s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original zincography on Ivory paper. Image Dimensions: 21...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Nude of Woman - Zincography by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an original modern artwork realized the 1950s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original zincography on Ivory paper. Image Dimensions: ...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
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Paper
Composition - Original Etching on Paper - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original etching print on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the 20th Century.
Hand-signed on the lower right, illegible. Artist's proof.
The state of pres...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Marine Nature - Original Etching on Paper by Robert Naly - 1950s
By Robert Naly
Located in Roma, IT
Marine Nature is an original Contemporary artwork realized in the mid-20th Century by Robert Naly (1900 - 1983).
Original Etching on paper.
Passepartout is included (cm 60 x 40)....
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Narcisse - Original Etching by Andre Roland Brudieux - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Narcisse is an original contemporary artwork realized by the artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999) in the mid-20th Century.
Original B/W Et...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chartres Exposition de Peinture Contemporaine - Vintage Poster 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Chartres Chartres Exposition de Peinture Contemporaine is an original vintage poster print realized in 1958.
Good conditions except for being...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Figures - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original etching, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1959.
Hand-signed.
Numbered 2/2.
In good condition.
Included a Passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
Here the artwork represe...
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Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Gli Amanti - Original Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Gli Amanti is an original etching realized by Guelfo Bianchini in 1958.
The artwork is hand signed on the lower right.
Numbered on the lower left. Ed. 74/90.
Monogrammed.
Guelfo...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Gli Amanti - Original Etching by Guelfo Bianchini - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Gli Amanti is an original etching realized by Guelfo Bianchini in 1959.
The artwork is hand signed on the lower right.
Numbered on the lower left. Ed. 74/90.
Monogrammed.
Guelfo...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude - Original Drawing in Pen by Sergio Barletta - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original drawing in pen realized by Sergio Barletta in 1958.
Applied on passepartout: 70 x 49.5 cm.
Hand-signed on the lower right, dated along the left margin.
In very...
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Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Pen
Portrait of Giuseppe Ungaretti - Original Lithograph by Pericle Fazzini - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Giuseppe Ungaretti is a fine lithograph realized by the Italian artist Pericle Fazzini in 1958.
Hand-signed in lower margin. Numberd in Roman Numerals.
In very good con...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Lithograph on Paper by Pierre Guastalla
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph artwork on paper realized by Pierre Guastalla (1891-1968).
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
The state of preservation is very good.
Sheet d...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figures - Original Pen and Watercolor Drawing by Flor David - 1950s
By Flor David
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original drawing on ivory paper realized by Flor David in the 1950s
This is an original pen and watercolored drawing. The artwork represents the study of figures, skil...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Frog - Original Etching on Paper by Marcel Gaillard - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Frog is an original etching on paper by Marcel Gaillard.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good.
Numbered on the lower left 1/1.
Sheet dimension : 28 x 38 cm.
The artwo...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Figures - Original Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original etching, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1959.
Hand-signed.
numbered 2/2.
In good condition.
Here the artwork represents several figures in different posit...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Bird - Original Etching by Marcel Guillard - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Bird is an original etching artwork, realized in 1959 by Marcel Guillard ( 1896-?). Hand-signed and dated in blue color pencil on the lower.
The state of preservation is very good.
...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Knights - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1950s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Knights is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the second half of XX century.
Black and white xylograph.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower margin and a minor disco...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Three Twins - Original Lithograph by P. Borra - 1950s
By Pompeo Borra
Located in Roma, IT
Three Twins is a beautiful lithograph realized by the Italian artist Pompeo Borra (Milan, 1898-1973).
Hand-signed in pencil "P. Borra" on the lower left margin. Numbered on the lowe...
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1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paysan avec Chevaux - Etching by Michel Ciry - Mid 20th Century
By Michel Ciry
Located in Roma, IT
Paysan avec Chevaux is a beautiful black and white etching, realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century.
Signed with a monogram on the plate: "M.C.".
Demonstrating a ...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Il Diavolo (The Devil) - Etching by Luigi Bartolini - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 33.5 x 25 cm.
Il Diavolo (The Devil) is an original artwork realized by Luigi Bartolini.
Signed on plate on the lower right "L. Bartolini". Hand-signed in pencil ...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Enfance - Etching by J. Donnay - 1950s
By Jean Donnay
Located in Roma, IT
L'Enfance is an original artwork realized in the first half of the 20th Century by Jean Donnay.
Original etching on paper.
Edition of 50 prints.
Hand-signed in pencil by the ar...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Gitane de Richepin - Litho After H. de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
La Gitane de Richepin is a chromolithographed poster, monogrammed on plate on the lower right margin by the French bohemian artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ships on the Tiber River - Italy - Original Lithograph by G. Omiccioli - 1950 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Ships on the Tiber River is a beautiful original lithograph on "Duca d'Este" watermarked paper, realized in the middle of the XX century by the Italian art...
Category
Contemporary 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L' aretino
Located in Roma, IT
Original print. Black and white etching hand signed lower right. Titled lower left. Signed and date on the plate "Bartolini 1959". Edition of 50 prints.Very good conditions except li...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Due Nudi
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 125 prints.
Image Dimensions : 33.5 x 48 cm
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PRISE DE JERUSALEM (CRAMER 30)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching with hand coloring on Arches paper. Hand signed and numbered by Marc Chagall. From La Bible. Cramer books 30. Edition 23/100. Image size 12.75 x 10.12 inches. Sheet size 21 x 15.5 inches. Frame size approx 28 x 22 inches. Published by Tériade, Paris.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity issued by Gallery Art. All reasonable offers will be considered.
About the Artist: Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887–1985) was an artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career, Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in paintings like I and the Village (1911). “When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it—a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test,” he said. “If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Le Taureau Blanc III, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc III, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the co...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Taureau Blanc, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the collec...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Taureau Blanc I, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc I, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the colle...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Taureau Blanc V, Surrealist Etching by Lucien Coutaud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lucien Coutaud, French (1904 - 1977) - Le Taureau Blanc V, Year: 1957, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 7.75 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Description: From the coll...
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Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
By Paul Jouve
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Paul Jouve - Eagle - Original Engraving
Editions Rombaldi, Paris, 1950.
Copy on velin creme de Rives
Artwork by Paul Jouve.
Original copper engraving heightened with pochoir.
Paul...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Jean Fautrier - Naked Annabelle - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Fautrier - Naked Annabelle - Original Lithograph
1957
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Signed in the plate
From the art review XXe siecle
Unumbered as issued
Category
Abstract Geometric 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Jean Dubuffet - Flowers - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Dubuffet - Flowers - Pochoir
1957
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Le Peintre et son Modèle I
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Le Peintre et son Modèle I
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fa...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Comédie Humaine
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - La Comédie Humaine
Lithograph from 1954.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.5 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and s...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Engraving
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date Dimensio...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - The Boxer - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: The Boxer
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumb...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Zoran Music (after) - Composition - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zoran Music (after)- Composition - Pochoir
1959
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau - Surrealist Creature - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Surrealist Creature
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumbered as issued
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Domergue - Française - Original Signed Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Française
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisien...
Category
Impressionist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
A stone lithograph on Vélin de Rives paper after a drawing by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "La Comedie Humaine", 1954, unsigned as issued. From "Verve", no. 29-30,...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
"Noel, " Religious Linocut in Blue on Tissue Paper signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original linocut on tissue paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus. Both fig...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Noel, " Religious Linocut in Green on Tan Paper signed by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noel" is an original linocut in green ink on tan paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower center. This artwork features the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesu...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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: Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris
Printed by: Atelier Mourlot, Paris
Documentation / References: Mourlot, F., Chagall Lithograph [II] 1957-1962, A. Sauret, Monte Carlo 1963, nos. 234 and 257
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...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Woman Angel - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Landscape with Two Figures" original monotype and drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
In this monotype print, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a scene of two young men relaxing within a pastoral landscape. On the back of the print, Spicuzza has left her prepar...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Graphite, Monotype
after Jean Arp - Moustaches et Squelette - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Arp
Moustaches et Squelette
Executed in 1957 after the original artwork by the studios from Daniel Jacomet in Paris, France
Pochoir
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art re...
Category
Surrealist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil, Paper
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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" (...
Category
Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"A Poem in Each Book" Exhibition Poster
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Exhibition poster for "A Poem in Each Book" by Paul Eluard, illustrated by his friends the painters-engravers, at Maison de la Pensée Française, Paris, October 26 - November 11, 1956...
Category
Cubist 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Merry Christmas, " Original Color Woodcut signed with stamp by Sylvia Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Merry Christmas" is an original color woodcut on paper by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist stamped her signature lower right. This artwork features the an abstracted figure on orange p...
Category
American Modern 1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut