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Mini crab, Limited edition print, Animal art, Sea Art
By Gavin Dobson
Located in Deddington, GB
A hand crafted five layer screen print of a painted illustration by the artist of a crab on heritage white paper. With a final layer hand glittered.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Handmade...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen
Calceolaria, English antique orange flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Calceolaria'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freeha...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
New York Bouquet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York Bouquet
Lithograph, 1917
Edition: 93
Signed with the artist's cipher in pencil lower right (see photo)
This lithograph is inspired by Hassam's oil painting of the same title...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mother and Child Before Notre-Dame
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Mother and Child Before Notre-Dame
Lithograph from 1952.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
On the verso another Lithograph in b...
Category
1950s Symbolist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Imagine Peace
By Yoko Ono
Located in London, GB
Yoko Ono
Imagine Peace, 2022
Silkscreen print on Somerset paper
29.7 x 42 cm
comes with COA from the publishers
published by CIRCA
Category
2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Abstract Composition
Located in OPOLE, PL
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) - Abstract Composition
Lithograph from 1969.
Dimensions of work: 31 x 23.5 cm
Publisher: San Lazzaro, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast ...
Category
1960s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sealyham and Setter, Cecil Aldin 1930s dog lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Sealyham and Setter'
Cecil Aldin dog lithograph, 1935.
Cecil Aldin was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of...
Category
1930s English School Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Double Stars. Antique Astronomy science print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 285mm by 210mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vinyl Collection B Side Recording - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'B Side Recording'. Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully mesmerising collection. A celebration of the vi...
Category
2010s Pop Art Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Signed Lithograph Coloring Book by Keith Haring
By Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
A blank coloring book designed and printed by American Pop artist Keith Haring. This copy is signed and dated in pen by the artist and features several illustrations in the artist’s ...
Category
1980s More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Friedensreich Hundertwasser Serigraph on Metal on Layered Plexiglas, 1979
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Friedensreich Hundertwasswer (Austrian 1928-2000)
Serigraph on Metal on Layered Plexiglas, 1979
“Fall in Cloud, Fall in Fog, Fall Out”
Measures: 11 3/8"h x 13 3/4"w x 1 1/2"d.
Prese...
Category
1970s More Prints
Materials
Plexiglass
The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXVII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LXVII
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in...
Category
1970s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jonathan Winters, "The Thoughts of a Matador, " hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is a giclée after an original painting created by Jonathan Winters in 1977. Jonathan Winters was an American comedian, actor, author, and artist whose iconic career spanne...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art More Prints
Materials
Giclée
Clare Halifax, C Is for Canary, Silkscreen Print, Bird Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax
C Is for Canary
Limited Edition 3 Colour Silkscreen Print
Edition of 75
Image size H 22 x W 22cm
Sheet Size: H 27 x W 25cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
'Pulitzer Fountain, Evening" — 1940s American Modernism, New York City
By Ellison Hoover
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ellison Hoover, 'Pulitzer Fountain, Evening', lithograph, circa 1940, edition c. 40. Signed in pencil. A fine, atmospheric impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 4 5/16 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 12 1/2 x 9 5/8 inches (318 x 244 mm); sheet size 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (413 x 311 mm).
ABOUT THE SUBJECT
The Pulitzer fountain was commissioned as a bequest by Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher and founder of the Columbia School of Journalism. Designed by Austrian sculptor Karl Bitter...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,760 Sale Price
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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
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cirque
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Cirque
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 250 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 42 x 32.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Mourlot 487, ...
Category
1930s Symbolist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,844
Joan Miro - “Plate I” from “Oda à Joan Miró” - Lithograph
By Joan Miró
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
“Plate I,” from “Oda à Joan Miró,” by Joan Brossa Lithograph in colors, 1973 Signed in pencil and inscribed “H.C.” (presumably one of 10; the total edition was 525) Published by La...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Monogram "J" with Landscape (Plate XI), from Carmen
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Monogram "J" with Landscape (Plate XI)
Portfolio: Carmen
Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper
Year: 1949
Edition: 289
Sheet Size: 13" x 10 3/16"
Signed:...
Category
1940s Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
Black Sun
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph with Chine applique. One of ten Roman numeral artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 50. Signed and numbered IX/X in pencil by Mot...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Blue Lady - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Blue Lady
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 25.5 cm
Edition: 200
1959
Publisher: Bibliophiles Du Palais
Unnumb...
Category
1950s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Honesty, English antique mauve flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Honesty'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand a...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXXIX
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXXIX
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in...
Category
1970s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Old Rinkrank threatens the Princess by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
Located in New York, NY
This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Broad Bell-Flower, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Broad Bell-Flower'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, An ioway Chief: Original Hand-colored McKenney & Hall Lithograph
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, An Ioway Chief ",...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
H C Beck September 1933 London Underground Pocket Map (First Year of Issue)
By Harry Beck
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters including more London Transport posters, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or...
Category
1930s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hommage à San Lazzaro
By Hans Hartung
Located in OPOLE, PL
Hans Hartung (1904-1989) - Hommage à San Lazzaro
Lithograph from 1975.
Edition 371/575 (Photocopy of the colophone is included).
Dimensions of work: 31 x 24 cm.
Each copy of this...
Category
1970s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Art Nouveau "Glasgow Rose" original lithograph by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Located in Chicago, IL
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, and visual artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann. Mackintosh was born in Glasgow and died in London. He is among the most important figures of Modern Style (British Art Nouveau...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chama Winter limited edition hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Chama Winter is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 133 /260 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Jimmy Carter Inaugural (Plains, GA)
By Jamie Wyeth
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on wove paper. Signed and numbered 35/100 in pencil, lower right. Published by The 1977 Presidential Inaugural Committee, Washington, D.C.
From the 1977 Inaugura...
Category
1970s American Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
Sangre de Christos hand-pulled serigraph by Robert Daughters
Located in Paonia, CO
Sangre de Christos is a hand-pulled, limited edition serigraph, no. 39 / 260 and is signed in pencil by the artist. Published by Aspen Mountain Graphic...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Leon Bakst Three Costume designs from Le Dieu Bleu Ballet 1911
By Leon Bakst
Located in Paonia, CO
Three iconic Leon Bakst costume designs for Le Dieu Bleu ( The Blue God ) a ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine and written by Cocteau. The ballet premiered in Paris in 1912. It tells the story of a girl who tries to dissuade her fiancé from becoming a priest and is thereafter tormented by demons; but she is eventually saved by the Blue God, a part performed by Vaslaw Nijinsky, the greatest male dancer of his time. Fokine’s choreography and Bakst’s costumes drew upon Siamese dance and Hindu sculpture. These three prints are vintage reproductions quite unlike the reproductions of today. They each have the look of original watercolors and are backed on heavy grey rag paper with a hand painted gold border. Properly framed they will definitely look like the original drawing. The size of the actual prints varies slightly but the background paper size is consistently 10.5 x 15.5.
Born in Russia in 1866, Léon Bakst belonged to a young generation of European artists who rebelled against 19th-century stage realism, sparking a revolution in theatre design. His fame lay in the sets and costumes he designed for Serge Diaghilev’s (1872 – 1929) legendary dance company the Ballets Russes, and his huge pageant spectaculars for the dancer and patron of the performing arts, Ida Rubinstein...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Color
Group of 4 lithographs
Located in New York, NY
Group contains "Untitled #2," "Untitled #4", "Untitled #5" and "Untitled #6." Each printed on Hahnemühle German etching paper. One initialed, dated and numbered 37/42 in pencil and t...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hommage à San Lazzaro
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) - Hommage à San Lazzaro
Lithograph from 1975.
Edition 371/575 (Photocopy of t...
Category
1970s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,742 Sale Price
20% Off
Butterflies, late 19th century antique natural history colour lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. Cynthia juliana 2. Anartia amalthea 3. Junonia orthosia'
Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mychael Barratt, Gormley’s Dog II, Contemporary Art, Affordable Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Mychael Barratt
Gormley’s Dog II
Limited Edititon Print
Edition of 100
Sheet Size: H 40cm x W 38cm
Signed and Titled
Sold Unframed
Please note that in situ images are purely an indi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Pierre Soulages - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pierre Soulages - Original Lithograph
Published in the deluxe art review "XXe siècle"
1970
Unsigned as published
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Pierre Soulages or the "painter of black" as ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
'Favourite Flowers' Limited edition book with signed aquatint 'Iris'
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
’Favourite Flowers (Iris)’
By Elizabeth Blackadder
A limited edition book of 100 copies specially bound for the Mercury Gallery. No 1 to 50 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Iris'. No 51 to 100 contain and original etching/aquatint 'Salpiglossis'. Each signed and numbered by the artist. All watercolours reproduced within the book by Elizabeth Blackadder and commentary by Deborah Kellaway.
Medium - Limited edition book with signed aquatint
Book Edition - 58/100
Print Edition - 8/50
Signed Book - Yes
Signed Print - Yes
Size Book - 234mm x 202mm
Size Print - 217mm x 187mm
Date - 1994
Published by Gillian Raffles. Mercury Gallery. Bond Street, London
Condition - Excellent. 10/10
Painter and printmaker, born Falkirk, Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art, 1949-54. In 1954 she was awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship and visited Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy and was much influenced by Byzantine architecture and mosaics. In 1956 she married the painter John Houston with whom she has since travelled widely. Flowers, cats and small objects are often arranged perpendicularly across the paper or canvas.
Elected RSW in 1960, an Associate of the RSA 1963, an Associate of the RA 1971, RSA 1972 and RA 1976, she is the first woman to be elected both RA and RSA. Blackadder has exhibited at the Mercury Gallery, London, Marjorie Parr Gallery and abroad and is a member of the Scottish Arts Club. Her work is represented in Aberdeen University, Bolton Art Gallery, Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Fleming Collection, Glasgow Print Studio, Gracefield Arts Centre, New Hall College, Cambridge, Otter Gallery, Reading Art...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXI
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche XXI
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in f...
Category
1970s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Takashi Murakami record art 2018 (Takashi Murakami Kanye West)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami Record Art 2018 (Takashi Murakami Kanye West Kid Cudi):
This Takashi Murakami designed cover & record album is for Kids See Ghosts and is the only studio album by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
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
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Star Chart. Antique Astronomy celestial print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Mock Turtle's Story Alice in Wonderland Salvador Dali 1969 original woodcut
Located in Paonia, CO
The Mock Turtle's Story is from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as interpreted by Salvador Dali and published by Maecenas ( a Random...
Category
1960s Surrealist Animal Prints
Materials
Photogravure
Original AIRS DE CHANCE Loterie Nationale original French lottery poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original AIRS DE CHANCE Loterie Nationale French vintage poster. Translated, it means, "In the moonlight, my friend Pierrot, lend me your money to win the jackpot." Linen-backed original French lottery...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femme Bleue
Located in OPOLE, PL
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - Femme Bleue
Lithograph from 1958.
Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm
Plate signed.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
On the verso there is another Lithograp...
Category
1950s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$851 Sale Price
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Original Vinaigreries Generals Bordeaux Bastide vintage vinegar poster, round
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: VINAIGRERIES GENERALS BORDEAUX BASTIDE, FRANCE. A more unique vintage poster that is round. The poster features a sun in the middle in deep red, with th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'atelier de Cannes
Located in OPOLE, PL
This work will be exhibited at Art on Paper NYC, September 4–7, 2025.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - L'atelier de Cannes
Lithograph from 1958.
On Arches paper.
Dimensions of work...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
LOVE /// Robert Indiana Typography Pop Art Screenprint Black and White Print Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Robert Indiana (American, 1928-2018)
Title: "LOVE"
Portfolio: Banner, Multiples Calendar for 1970
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1969
Medium: Original Screenprint on smooth w...
Category
1960s Pop Art More Prints
Materials
Screen
Seafront Shelter (Left), St Leonards-on-Sea - British Seaside Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Seafront Shelters, are a typical of the British Seaside, they are part of a Seaside Towns identity, with nods to various architectural heritage. Photograph from Richard Heeps', On-Se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Nepenthes, English antique carnivorous plant botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Nepenthes'
(Tropical Pitcher Plant)
Plants are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image.
Antique English botanical chromolithograph.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Urge (I)
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on Saunders Waterford paper. Signed, dated and numbered 199/250 in pencil. Published by the artist, New York. From the same titled se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Color, Screen
$14,500
The Taste of Happiness, Planche LII
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Taste of Happiness, Planche LII
Lithograph from 1970.
An unsigned and unnumbered edition of 666.
Dimensions of sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions in f...
Category
1970s Modern More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Litografía original III
By Joan Miró
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Litografía original III
Lithograph from 1972.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24.5 cm.
Dimensions in frame: 52 x42 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
Printed ...
Category
1930s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$756 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall - Hommage à Julien Cain - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Frontispiece for André Dunoyer de Segonzac, and Julien Cain. "Humanisme Actif: Mélanges d'Art et de Littérature Offerts à Julien Cain." Paris: H...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dirty Funker Future (Radar Rat Grey Cover Record)
By Banksy
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Rare Grey cover version of Dirty Funker Future featuring the iconic Banksy Radar Rat artwork on both sides of album cover.
Limited edition of only 500 made in 2008.
Banksy used the R...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art More Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
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...
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