Gaston de Latenay Landscape Prints

After Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) By Charles Sorlier (French, 1921-1990) "Bataille de Fleurs (Carnaval of Flowers)" (from Nice and the Côte d’Azur), 1967 Reference: CS 33 Color Lithograph Image Size: 24 7/16 in x 18 in (62 cm x 45.8 cm) Sheet Size: 29 9/16 in x 20 11/16 in (75 x 52.5 cm) Framed Size: approx. 34 x 27 inches Edition: Numbered 1 of 150 in pencil in the lower left margin and printed on Arches wove paper (aside from an edition of 75 signed and numbered in Roman numerals and 10 artist's proofs). Signature: This work is hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin. Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of over 60,000, not a shtetl. His father supported a wife and eight children as a worker in a herring-pickling plant. Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young Chagall never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. He was ridiculed for his astonishment, but he began copying and improvising from magazines. Both Chagall's parents reluctantly agreed to let him study with Yehuda Pen, a Jewish artist in Vitebsk. Later, in 1906, they allowed their son to study in St. Petersburg, where he was exposed to Russian Iconography and folk art. At that time, Jews could leave the Pale only for business and employment and were required to carry a permit. Chagall, who was in St. Petersburg without a permit, was imprisoned briefly. His first wife, Bella Rosenfeld, was a product of a rich cultivated and intellectual group of Jews in Vitebsk. Chagall was made commissar for the arts for the area, charged with directing its cultural life and establishing an art school. Russian folklore, peasant life and landscapes persisted in his work all his life. In 1910 a rich patron, a lawyer named Vinaver, staked him to a crucial trip to Paris, where young artists were revolutionizing art. He also sent him a handsome allowance of 125 francs (in those days about $24) each month. Chagall rejected cubism, fauvism and futurism, but remained in Paris. He found a studio near Montparnasse in a famous twelve-sided wooden structure divided into wedge-shaped rooms. Chaim Soutine, a fellow Russian Jew...

Original 1947 Paris 1900 lithographic movie poster by the artist Raymond Peynet. The poster had originally been folded, and there is some wrinkling at the bottom edge of the poste...

A man raises his hand to his chin, his neck tilted and face turned to look at a dilapidated farmhouse, barely held together by planks of wood and exposed to the elements. Behind him ...

This artwork titled "The Fifth Hole (Kapalua Resort Hawaii)" c.1985, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numb...

In this sentimental work from 1939, Benton expresses his admiration for the rural lifestyle of the Midwest. He highlights the connection between man and the land by depicting two fig...

This rare 1933 lithograph by renowned modernist artist Arnold Rönnebeck depicts a striking winter scene of a Colorado mountain mine blanketed in snow. Rendered in dramatic black-and-...

Original Outing, July 1895 poster for the Outing magazine. Archivally linen backed in very fine condition. Ready to frame. Images are of the exact poster you will receive. A- ...

Original Ville de Bruxelles (City of Brussels, Belgium) vintage art nouveau poster. This beautiful lithograph is in excellent condition, ...

THis is a fabulous, Surrealist lithograph in bright fauvist colors by Hasidic mystic Boruch Nachshon It depicts jerusalem with King David and a menorah in a Jerusalem Landscape. Bar...

Original Cycles Omnium antique vintage French bicycle poster from the late 1880s-1890s. Printer: N. Weill, Paris, France. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. There was an area in the right-hand sky (creamish yellow) top area that had had some restoration. Touched up the border in the upper right corner. The poster was folded in half, with the fold mark restored during linen backing. Artist is: F. Capelli. Printer: Imp. N. Weill, Paris The image of a couple with their child on a bicycle ride out in the countryside of France, all in art nouveau clothing...

Original Alphonse Mucha decorative panel. Linen backed in very good condition A-/B+ condition. This lovely poster looks just like an oil painting. It is a rare design by Alphonse ...

Original vintage Danish poster: ODENSE, DENMARK. THE NATIVE TOWN OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. Great condition original. Linen backed origina...