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Art Subject: Women
"Two Birds" Black & White Photography 42" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Two Birds" Black & White Photography 42" x 30" in Edition 1/7 by Larsen Sotelo
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Giclee (Archival Ink) print on 310G Platine Fibre Cotton Rag w/satin fini...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Figure - Original Lithograph by L. Sasso - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is a splendid lithograph engraved by L. Sasso.
The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent.
Image Container: 40 x 30 cm
Image Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 cm
Illegible ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$313 Sale Price
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Oriental Nude - Lithograph on Paper by Maurice Barraud - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Nude is original lithograph on paper realized in 1929 by Maurice Barraud.
Signed on the plate on the lower left.
The state of preservation i...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$223 Sale Price
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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...
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Pen
$313 Sale Price
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Nude - Etching by Isac Regnaut - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Isac Regnaut.
Signe on the plate at the top center.
The state of preservation is very good.
The artwork represents nude po...
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$214 Sale Price
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Satyricon - Original Lithograph by Leonor Fini - 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Roma, IT
Satyricon is original colored lithography, realized in 1970 by Leonor Fini, an Argentine-Italian painter who spent her artistic career in France and was associated with the Surrealist movement.
In very good condition.
From series "Satiricon de Petron".
The artwork represents a portrait of a figure with his concerns expressed perfectly through confident strokes by bright and harmonic colors. The artwork here is resembling of the Roman wall painting...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$357 Sale Price
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Reclining Nude - Original Etching on Paper - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining nude is a beautiful etching realized during the XX century.
In very good condition. Illegible signature. Edition of only 25 copies.
Category
20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$268 Sale Price
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Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta, hand-signed, edition of 5/100.
In very good conditions.
Here the artwork represents a different pose of nudes,...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$223 Sale Price
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Oriental Nude - Original Lithograph on Paper by Maurice Barraud - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph on paper realized by Maurice Barraud in 1929.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Hand-signed on th...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude Study - Original Drawing in Charcoal by Debora Sinibaldi - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Study is an original drawing in brownish charcoal on ivory paper, realized by Debora Sinibaldi in 1985.
In good condition with some folding along the margins and some small sta...
Category
1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Nude Study - Original Drawing in Pencil by Debora Sinibaldi - 1985
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Study is an original drawing in pencil on ivory paper, realized by Debora Sinibaldi in 1985.
In good condition with some folding along the margins and some small stains.
Sheet...
Category
1980s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
$357 Sale Price
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Lampshade - Original Etching - 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 35.5 x 49.5 cm.
Lampshade is an original etching on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
There is The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
hand-signed on the lower right but unreadable.
numbered, edition IV/X
Sheet dimension : 50.5 x 69 cm
The artwork represents the leg of a nude woman on a bed...
Category
1970s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$357 Sale Price
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Nude on Stairs
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1951), Nude on Stairs, etching, 1930, signed in pencil lower right margin, titled in pencil center, inscribed “100 proofs” lower left [also signed in the plate lower...
Category
1930s American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
"Blue Kate Moss Triplet" Photography 28" × 26" in Edition of 25 by Kate Garner
By Kate Garner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Blue Kate Moss Triplet" Photography 28" × 26" in Edition of 25 by Kate Garner
Signed & dated.
Comes with COA
Archival Hahnemuhle art paper
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Garner's...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Luisa and Ippolito on the Traway- Original Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 41.5 x 33 cm.
Hand signed. Artist's proof.
Very good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created o...
Category
1980s Contemporary 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
"Erotica III Marginala, " from the Mask of the Red Death series signed Castellon
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This lithograph was one of sixteen Federico Castellón produced in 1968, published by Aquarius Press, to illustrate Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 story 'The Mask of the Red Death.' The image...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Female artist, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Nude - Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Female artist, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Nu Accroupi - Original Etching by Dunoyer de Segonzac - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 8 x 17 cm.
Etching on ivory colored paper, with en embossing stamp "Libreria Prandi Reggio E." in lower-right corner. Edition of 50 prints.
Beautiful etching rep...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Baigneuse Nue aux Arbres (Nude Bather amidst Trees)
By André Derain
Located in New York, NY
Andre Derain (1880-1954), Baigneuse Nue aux Arbres (Nude Bather amidst Trees), etching and drypoint, c. 1909, signed in pencil and numbered 27/100. Reference: Adhemar 50. In very good condition, on ARCHES cream laid paper, with their watermark, with full margins, 7 x 3 3/4, the sheet 22 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches, archivally matted.
A fine impression, with a subtle layering of plate tone.
Derain clearly based the face in this print on the famous African Fang mask which he owned (and which influenced others who saw it in his apartment such as Picasso, e.g., in his Demoiselles d’Avignon). It is also related to a sculpture he owned, a late medieval Virgin and Child. In fact, as is argued by Jane Lee...
Category
Early 1900s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Nudes I - Original Lithograph by Felice Casorati - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints plus 5 prints in Roman Numerals.
From the portfolio: "Dieci Litografie (Numerus, Mensura, Pondus)".
Very rare print in perfect conditions.
This a...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,118 Sale Price
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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
Paper, Etching
Female Figures - III
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Edition of 156 prints.
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,342 Sale Price
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Pink Nude - Original Screen Print by N. Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Pink Nude is an original serigraph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976. Hand signed and dated in pencil, lower right margin (Simbari 76) and numbered lower left. Edition of 90 prints. Perfect condition.
Gorgeous original artwork representing a female figure in an abstract background of light pink color. Female nude figures and bright colors are a typical feature of Nicola Simbari artwork.
Nicola Simbari (San Lucido...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
$447 Sale Price
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Crazy Horse No.1
Located in Roma, IT
Crazy horse no.1 is an original serigraph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1973. Hand signed and dated in pencil on lower right margin (Simbari 73) and number...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
$447 Sale Price
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Woman in Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in Yellow is an original serigraph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile with an abstract multicolour composition. There are colored boxes with black vertical lines and a purple background.
Nicola Simbari (San Lucido...
Category
1970s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
$313 Sale Price
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After
Located in Toronto, ON
70" x 50" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Robert Hartshorn
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
The Kiss
By Vladimir Komarek
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The KIss" c.1970 is an original drypoint etching on wove paper by noted Czech artist Vladimir Komarek, 1928-2002. It is hand signed and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Léonard Foujita - The Three Graces - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léonard Foujita (French/Japanese, 1886–1968)
The Three Graces
Original Lithograph
76 x 54 cm
Signed in the plate
Reference: Sylvie Buisson réf. #60.28 (vol. 1, p.531)
Léonard ...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Lovers - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Lovers - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsigned ...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - XXI Century, Figurative Monotype Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Color
Vintage Nude Figurative - Steel Plate Monotype
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude figurative by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Initialed "PP" on verso with the artist's name. Presented in a new blue mat with foamcore backing. Image size: 13"H x 11.25...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
Nude with a glass - XXI Century, Figurative Monotype Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Nude with raised legs - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Two women with a violin - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Krispy Kreme
By Ben Frost
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Ben Frost
Krispy Kreme
2015
Silkscreen
35 x 24 in.
Edition of 50
Pencil signed and numbered
Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Lying Woman - 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
Omphalopagus monster, an orphan from Saint Wanderer's Hospital, tinted print
Located in London, GB
© Katie Eleanor, VIII. "Omphalopagus monster, an orphan"
Series: Saint Wanderer's Hospital, 2015
Archival Pigment Print of the hand Coloured Photograph on cotton fine art paper, custom framed
7 1/2 × 5 7/10 in
19 × 14.5 cm (unframed print)
35 x 30.5 cm (Framed : Museum mount-board, antireflective art glass in hardwood custom frame)
Edition of 15
Framed or Unframed option available - please enquire
'Saint Wanderer’s Hospital' series depicts a fictional tale birthed from the artist’s inherent need to find splendour in the idea of sickness.
Rooted first from her own words, Katie used the idea of illustrating as a form of personal art therapy by immersing herself in the realm of the otherworldly characters. Every aspect of each scene was created by Katie alone, from building and designing the sets to printing and hand-colouring the final images. In this act, over the year long course of the projects creation, the artist managed to make certain turmoil in her personal life bearable.
In the world of the hospital, the artist adapts the role of medical photographer – creating accurate portraits of each character’s condition as a record for the hospitals future use.
The final series comprises of 8 ‘specimen...
Category
2010s Medieval Nude Photography
Materials
Cotton, Cotton Canvas, Watercolor, Archival Pigment
Leonor Fini - Friends - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Friends - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinckvel...
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
Salvador Dali - The Knights of King Arthur
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Knights of King Arthur - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Fiel...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - Original Etching on Silk
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Wanting Solitude and Closeness, female nude, Linocut original print, Unframed
Located in Dallas, TX
"Wanting Solitude and Closeness" is an original linocut on Kozuke paper by Ellen Von Wiegand.
Image size 23.75 x 15.75 inches / 60 x 40 cm
Paper size 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 50 cm
Thi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut, Handmade Paper, Ink
She Did Not Hurry, female figurative Linocut original print, Unframed
Located in Dallas, TX
"She Did Not Hurry" is an original linocut on Kozuke paper by Ellen Von Wiegand.
Image size 23.75 x 15.75 inches / 60 x 40 cm
Paper size 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 50 cm
Von Wiegand typi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut, Ink
Leonor Fini - Rejection - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Rejection - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsign...
Category
1960s Modern 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
Running Nubians-Limited Edition Serigraph with Gold Leafing, Signed by Artist
Located in Chesterfield, MI
Limited Edition Serigraph with Gold Leafing, HC 29/50. Print measures 27.5 x 36.5 inches and is unframed. Signed by the Artist. The piece is in
Good Condition-the print shows signs ...
Category
Late 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
MONICA LYING DOWN ONE ARM UP
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. HC Edition 6/6 (there was also a main edition of 26). Published by International Images, Putney, Vermont. Wildenstein ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
The Dead Bastard Graffiti Print, Mystery East Village, 1970s
Located in New York, NY
The Dead Bastard, Mystery East Village
Untitled, 1972
Lithograph
Sheet: 18 x 24 in.
Image: 16 x 22 in.
Singled lower right: The Dead Bastard, 1972
Category
1970s Abstract 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
Andre Derain was born in 1...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Gabriel Domergue - The Hug - 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
Henri Matisse, Acrobates, 1952 Claude Duthuit, no. 13
Located in Torino, IT
HENRI MATISSE, Le Cateau Cambrésis 1869 - Nice 1954
Acrobates, 1952- 1958
Color lithograph, from papier gouache-découpé.
Bibliography: Claude Duthuit, Catalogue raisonné des ouvrage...
Category
20th Century Fauvist 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: Édit...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Disagreement - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Disagreement - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Uns...
Category
1960s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Portrait - 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
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.
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