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Dirty Dishes I
By Don Joint
Located in Boston, MA
Number 2 in an edition of 10. Titled, signed, numbered, and dated verso: Dirty Dishes / Don Joint / 2/10 / 2016.
Medium: Hand-thrown glazed earthenware w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Ceramic
Untitled Plate 5 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 5 from the Paroles Peintes Suite is an etching with aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right; numbered on the lower left in pencil. Edition of...
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled Plate 2 from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Plate 2 from Paroles Peintes Suite is a wonderful limited edition print.
Etching with aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right; numbered on the lowe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Don Kichot getting weaker - Figurative Etching Print Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Paper
The stairs - Figurative Etching Print Monochromatic Surreal Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Paper
A passion - Figurative Etching Print Monochromatic Surreal Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
Furniture with a drawer - Figurative Etching Print Monochromatic Surreal
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
On point - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print Nude Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
A birdie - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Nude, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
Paradise - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Nude, Black & white
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
A proposal - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Nude, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Polish painter and graphic designer, Czeslaw Tumielewicz was born in 1942.
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper
Yasumasa Morimura Cibachrome Print
By Yasumasa Morimura
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Work is titled BLUE PISSOIR. Certificate of Documentation to reverse states: “This work was donated by the artist, courtesy of Luhring Augustine Gallery, to benefit Housing Works...
Category
1990s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
C Print
Le Moulin Abandonné
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Moulin Abandonne, etching and engraving, 1934, signed lower left and numbered and annotated “imp” in pencil lower right....
Category
1930s Mannerist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Salvador Dali - David Ben Gurion - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - David Ben Gurion - Original Handsigned Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
1968
Signed in pencil
EA in Sanguine
Jean Schneider, Basel
References ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Cecilia Arrospide - Liberacion I, Collage 2019
Located in Greenwich, CT
Liberacion I
Collage
13 x 9
My work is mainly abstract, I would say abstract expressionism. I love painting with oils, they give me many possibilities I do not find in other mediums...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media
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
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Bordone's Venuses - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Nude, Landscape
Located in Warsaw, PL
PAWEL ZABLOCKI (born in 1960)
Pawel Zablocki is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma in 1987. Between 1991 and 1998, Zablocki studied semiotics a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Giordano & Velazquez's Venuses - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Nude
Located in Warsaw, PL
PAWEL ZABLOCKI (born in 1960)
Pawel Zablocki is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. He received his diploma in 1987. Between 1991 and 1998, Zablocki studied semiotics a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
American Contemporary Art by Michael Alan - Buck Naked
By Michael Alan
Located in Paris, IDF
Silkscreen on paper, ed. 2/7
Michael Alan is an American artist born in 1977 who lives & works in New York, USA. As a multidisciplinary artist. His work has been featured in many so...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Silk, Paper
"Nude (Bonjour) Ed. of 600, " Color Lithograph signed by Paul Guiramand
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nude (Bonjour)" is an original color lithograph by Paul Guiramand. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This piece is from an edition of 600. It depicts a nude female fig...
Category
1970s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Jonas Salk - Original Handsigned Engraving
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
1970
Signed in pencil
EA
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : Field 70-5
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
LUST
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Sheet size 14 x 11 inches. Image size 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Edition of 300. Artwork is in excellent condition. Cert...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Salvador Dali - Nude with Flower - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Flower - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Study I
Located in Toronto, ON
12" x 9" Unframed
Etching of 75
Hand Signed by Soyer
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau (after) - Carmen - Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after a drawing by Jean Cocteau
Title: Carmen
1971
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Société de Diffusion Artistique
Category
1960s Modern Nude 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
1950s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...
Category
1920s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - The Cane - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - The Cane - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 2...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Portraits - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Portraits - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinckv...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
1950s Modern 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
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Leonard Foujita - Soldiers - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Leonard Foujita
Title: Soldiers
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm
Edition of 97
From the " Propos d'un intoxiqué " Portfolio, published in 1928 by Jav...
Category
1920s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau - Bath - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Servants - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Servants - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinckve...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Masson - Original Lithograph
By André Masson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Maurice Estève - Composition
Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
French painter born...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women's Love - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jea...
Category
1920s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Queen Iseult and her daughter - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Dufza - Paris - Quai des Grands Augustins - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Dufza - Paris - Quai des Grands Augustins - Original Handsigned Etching
Circa 1940
Handsigned in pencil
Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm
Category
1940s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This artwork is a lithograph in colors on wov...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints
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