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Marc ChagallMarc Chagall 'Passage du Jordain - 1958' Etching With Watercolor1956
1956
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Marc Chagall, 1887-1985 (Russian, French)
Passage du Jordain - The Israelites Crossing the Jordan 1956, From bible 1931-1958
Etching with watercolor
signed lower right, numbered '26/100' lower left
Printed by Tariade
DIMENSIONS: Image H: 16.12" W: 12.37", & Frame H: 23.37" W: 19.62"
Condition: Excellent
After Chagall completed his etchings for The Fables (1930), Vollard again offered Chagall a commission, this time for a set of etchings illustrating themes from the Bible. Chagall went to Palestine to get a sense of the land itself. Returning to Paris, he began work on the 105 etchings for this project, first between 1931 and 1939 (when the first sixty-five etchings were executed and printed) and then between 1952 and 1956 (when the remaining forty etchings were completed and printed). Meyer Schapiro, the noted art historian, observed that Chagall was the ideal artist to have undertaken the task of illustrating the Bible: "Chagall was prepared for this achievement by his permanent receptivity of mind. He is a rare modern painter whose art has been accessible to the full range of his emotions and thoughts. . . . He has represented themes of an older tradition not in a spirit of curiosity or artifice, but with a noble devotion. . . . Although these etchings are marvels of patient, scrupulous craftsmanship, there is no assertion here of skill or technical research, but an immersion in a subject which the artist convinces us often equals or transcends value in the work of art . . . In almost every image we experience the precise note of his emotion, his awe or sadness or joy, which is voiced in the melody of shapes and the tonal scale peculiar to each conception. If we had nothing of Chagall but his Bible, he would be for us a great modern artist."
Most of the etchings for The Bible were executed by Chagall between 1931 and 1939; the last pieces were completed between 1952 and 1956. The Bible was issued in an edition of 275 signed and numbered portfolios and 20 portfolios hors commerce. There are also 100 sets of the etchings with hand-coloring on paper with large margins, each of which is numbered lower left and initialed in pencil by Chagall lower right. References: Marc Chagall: Druckgraphische Folgen 1922-1966. Verzeichnis der Bestande (Hannover: Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammling Sprengel, 1981); Charles Sorlier, Marc Chagall et Ambroise Vollard; Catalogue Complet des Gravures Executees par Marc Chagall a la demande de Ambroise Vollard (Paris: Editions Galerie Matignon, 1981). Important collections of Chagall's Biblical prints include Franz Meyer, Marc Chagall: His Graphic Work (NY: Abrams, 1957), Jean Adhemar, Chagall L'oeuvre grave (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1970), Jean Leymarie, Marc Chagall Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall (Nice: Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, 1976), Charles Sorlier et al, Marc Chagall L'oeuvre grave (Nice: Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, 1987), Ernst-Gerhard Guse, Marc Chagall Druckgraphik (Stuttgart: Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kultgeschichte Munster, 1985).
- Creator:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French)
- Creation Year:1956
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Pembroke Pines, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2382215428732
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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