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Marc Chagall Art

French, 1887-1985

Described by art critic Robert Hughes as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century," the Russian-French modernist Marc Chagall worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, he developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art.

Born Moishe Segal in 1887, in Belarus (then part of the Russian empire), Chagall is often celebrated for his figurative paintings, but he also produced stained-glass windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, in France; for the United Nations, in New York; and for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, as well as book illustrations, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine-art prints. Characterized by a bold color palette and whimsical imagery, his works are often narrative, depicting small-village scenes and quotidian moments of peasant life, as in his late painting The Flight into Egypt from 1980.

Before World War I, Chagall traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. When the conflict broke out, he returned to Soviet-occupied Belarus, where he founded the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He fled to the United States during World War II but in 1947 returned to France, where he spent the rest of his life. His peripatetic career left its mark on his style, which was distinctly international, incorporating elements from each of the cultures he experienced.

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Artist: Marc Chagall
Le Reve de Paris
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
Marc Chagall Le Rêve de Paris (Paris Dream), 1969-70 Color lithograph on Arches wove paper 35 3/8 in x 25 1/4 in (90 cm x 64 cm) 40 1/8 in x 28 1/8 in (101.8 cm x 71.5 cm) Numbered f...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Christ in the Clock, from Chagall - Jacques Lassaigne
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Christ in the Clock Portfolio: Chagall - Jacques Lassaigne Medium: Lithograph Year: 1957 Edition: 6,000 Sheet Size: 9" x 7 7/8" Image Size: 9" x 7 7/8" Si...
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1950s Fauvist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

MARC CHAGALL L'acrobate rouge
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL 1887 - 1985 L'acrobate rouge 1974 Colour lithograph 69x51.5 cm, image; 83x64 cm, sheet size Signed by the artist in pencil lower right "Marc...
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1970s Impressionist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph, Paper

MARC CHAGALL "Le joueur de flûte"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL 1887 - 1985 "Le joueur de flûte" 1958 Colour lithograph 25.5x44 cm, illustration; 38.3x57.3 cm, sheet size Signed lower right by the artist in ink "Marc Chagall" and dedicated "Pour Ursula et Gerd Hatje / "merci" / Marc Chagall / 1958". Inscribed lower left by the artist "Epreuve d'artiste". This is an artist’s proof, aside from the edition of 90. Catalogue Raisonné : Mourlot 197 Gerd Hatje (14 April 1915 – 24 July 2007) was a German publisher. The publishing house that he founded in 1945, named the Humanitas Verlag, renamed in 1947 as Verlag Gerd Hatje, is internationally known for contemporary art, photography and architecture. It merged in to Hatje Cantz in 1999. In the 1950s and 1960s, Hatje changed the focus to art, photography, and architecture.[1] He had contact with and was a friend of contemporary artists such as Hans Arp, Willi Baumeister, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Georges Braque, Marcel Breuer, Marc Chagall, Christo, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Walter Gropius, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and James Stirling...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph, Paper

Marc Chagall -- The Flute Player (M. 197), 1957
By Marc Chagall
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Marc Chagall The Flute Player (M. 197) Lithograph printed in colors, 1957 Signed low right in pencil Numbered 46/90 Published by Maeght, Paris framed image: 250 x 430 mm sheet: 380...
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1950s Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Autoportrait avec chèvre (Self Portrait with Goat)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed Chagall/Marc in blue watercolor (lower right); inscribed in pencil (right margin); inscribed by another hand épreuve rehaussée (left margin) The authenticity of this work has...
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Early 20th Century Marc Chagall Art

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Watercolor, Lithograph

Frontispiece for "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Frontispiece for the book "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera)" by Jacques Lassaigne (Paris...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Green Horse - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Title: The Green Horse 1973 Dimensions: 33 x 50 cm Reference: This lithograph was created for the portfolio "Chagall Monu...
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1970s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall ”La Femme du Peintre”.
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (Russia/France 1887‑1985). ”La Femme du Peintre”. Signed and numbered Marc Chagall 35/50. Color lithograph on Arches, Framed 39.25H x 33W x 2D inches Image 63 x ...
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1970s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

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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1950s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Maternité / Motherhood I: Honte / Disgrace
By Marc Chagall
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARC CHAGALL (1887 – 1985) MATERNITE, 1926. Motherhood I: Honte / Disgrace (Kornfeld 65, Cramer 5, Sorlier, p. 20-21 Etching, Frontispiece from Maternite Au Sans Pareil, Paris, 1926. Marcel Arland, illustrated by Marc Chagall with five original etchings this being one of the five. Image size: 5 5/8 x 4 1/8. 1130 unsigned impressions on various papers. The story begins with a young woman being shunned by the whole village because she had given birth to a child and left its dead body...
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1920s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Etching

Paris Opera Ceiling - Institute of Artistic Achievement.
By Marc Chagall
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster (provenance unknown). Measures 9 x 13 inches and is Unframed. Good Condition. MULTIPLE COPIES AVAILABLE
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Late 20th Century Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Les Peintres Temoins et Leurs Temps (before lettering) by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph was printed in 1963 at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris. This print was executed for the annual exhibition "Les Peintres Temoins de Leur Temps" at the Galleria museum in ...
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1960s Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Angel Bay, Framed Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression from the book of Marc Chagall's (Russian, 1887-1985) lithographs. Published in 1960 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte-Carlo. From 1960 to 1974 Chagall produced 28 lithographs for the six volumes of the Lithographs Catalogue Raisonné. Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Angel Bay Year: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Size: 12 in. x 9 in. (30.48 cm x 22.86 cm) Frame: 20 x 17 inches Editor: Andre Sauret Publisher: George Braziller...
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1960s Impressionist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

King Ahasuerus - Plate from The Bible II - by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
King Ahasuerus - Plate from The Bible II is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph. The artwork is from the series "The Bible" In 1931, on ...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Travel Poster Paris Opera Le Plafond De Chagall Romeo & Juliet
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster published by the French Government and the General Committee for Tourism to promote travel to Paris to visit the Opera Garnier and admire t...
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1960s Marc Chagall Art

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Paper

Brown Still Life from Chagall by Jacques Lassaigne
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: Brown Still Life Portfolio: Chagall by Jacques Lassaigne Year: 1957 Edition: 6,000 Framed Size: 13 3/4" x 15 1/2" Sheet Size: 9" x 7 3/...
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1950s Fauvist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

LE REPOS (MOURLOT 555)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Mourlot, 555. Sheet size 18.75 x 25.75 inches. Image size 11 x 18 inches. Frame size approx 25 x 31 inches...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph, Paper

Paradise
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1960 Unsigned lithograph from the book "Drawings for the Bible" composed of 24 color lithographs Publisher : Verve (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : 232 Ref : B2
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1960s Abstract Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Mother and Child at Eiffel Tower
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Original lithograph Title: Mother and Child at Eiffel Tower Portfolio: Paris - Derriere le Mirior Year: 1954 Edition: 2500 Framed Size: 19" x 23" Image S...
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1950s Fauvist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Mother and Child Before Notre Dame
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: Mother and Child before Notre Dame Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28 Year: 1952 Edition: 6000 Signed: Unsigned Framed Size: 22" x 18 1...
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1950s Fauvist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

The Circus, Framed Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression from the book of Marc Chagall's (Russian, 1887-1985) lithographs. Published in 1960 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte-Carlo. From 1960 to 1974 Chagall produced 28 lithogr...
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1960s Impressionist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Banquet at the Palace of Menelaus
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall Banquet at the Palace of Menelaus Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph on Arches wove Title: Banquet at the Palace of Menelaus Portfolio: The Odyssey, Volume I Year:...
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1970s Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Salomon - Plate from The Bible I - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Salomon - Plate from The Bible I is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph. Mourlot 131 The artwork is from the series "The Bible". In 19...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Rachel steals her father's idols
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1960 Unsigned lithograph from the book "Drawings for the Bible" composed of 24 color lithographs Publisher : Verve (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Mourlot 242...
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1960s Abstract Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

La Ruche et Montparnasse
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
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1970s Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

1969 Marc Chagall 'Derriere Le Miroir Cover'
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age Ship...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Hagar in the Desert
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Original lithograph Title: Hagar in the Desert Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible From VERVE, Vol. X, Nos. 37 and 38. ...
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1960s Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

"Nuit d'été (Summer's Night)" Lithograph, Colors, Linear Figures on Black Ground
By Marc Chagall
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Marc Chagall is clearly a Modernist. Though titled "Summer Night" it could just as easily be identified as a scene from Shakespeare...
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Late 20th Century Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Rag Paper, Lithograph

Paris Opera Ceiling - Institute of Artistic Achievement.
By Marc Chagall
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster (provenance unknown). Measures 9 x 13 inches and is Unframed. Good Condition.
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Late 20th Century Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

1969 Marc Chagall 'The arrival of Spring" detail
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches ( 38.1 x 55.88 cm ) Image Size: 12 x 16 inches ( 30.48 x 40.64 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall, expressionist, figurative, lithograph print
By Marc Chagall
Located in Köln, DE
"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall is numbered and signed Epreuve d’artiste’ and numbered XXIV/XXV, and is apart from the edition of 50. 76,2 x 53,7 cm. This lithograph from 1969. C...
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1960s Expressionist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

1973 Marc Chagall 'Moses and Tablets'
By Marc Chagall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches ( 31.75 x 23.495 cm ) Image Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches ( 31.75 x 23.495 cm ) Framed: Yes Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: The overall outside...
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1970s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

"Paradis (Paradise), M 232/255, " an Original Color Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Paradis (Paradise), M 232/255" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. his original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dessins pour La Bible." I...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall “Ten Commandments”
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) “Ten Commandments” Original Etching with Water Color numbered 46/100 on the lower left margin,Paper Monogrammed by hand of M...
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Late 20th Century Marc Chagall Art

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Watercolor, Etching

Le Coq Rouge
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: 1957 Lithograph Edition of 6000 Size: 9 x 15.25 in. (22.86 x 38.74 cm) Frame Size: 15.5 x 22 inches Printer: Mourlot Paris Publisher: Maeght, Paris 1957 Reference: Cramer 34: M...
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1950s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Green River - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph Double-page spread from the 1974 book "Chagall" by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Unsigned, edition of approximately 10,000 Published by Maeght 1974 D...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Troyer - Rare Book Illustrated by Marc Chagall - 1922
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Troyer is an original Modern Rare book written by David Hofstein (Korostyshiv, 1889 – Mosca, 1952) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985) in 1922. ...
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1920s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Paper, Photogravure

L'inspiré Self Portrait Marc Chagall Valentina Vava Lithograph 1963 Mourlot 398
By Marc Chagall
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Inspiration or L'inspiré - The artist and his wife, self-portrait. This is a self-portrait of the great artist, depicting him as lost in thought before one of his paintings, which is apparently related to his home country Russia, as suggested by the small figure in the lower right of the work. Chagall’s wife Valentina (“Vava”), who was also from Russia, is looking over his shoulder, full of longing. The small surreal elements that are characteristic of Chagall’s paintings are also present here: the silhouettes of the houses that seems to stick out of the painting and a figure with a flute or trombone standing on its head. Chagall Lithographe, Volume II of the catalogue raisonné of Chagall's lithographic work, see Mourlot 398, 1957-1962, Paris 1963, imprinted by Imprimerie Mourlot for the publisher André Sauret. A lithographic plate from the catalog that was published in 10,000 copies. Condition : Excellent Set inside a cream mount bearing brass cartellino Visible sheet size length 23cm, Height 31.50cm In a carved and gilded frame Frame size Length 44cm, Height 55.5cm The reverse with a paper label in Japanese Provenance : Private Collection, purchased with Lovers in Grey
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - La Vache Bleue (Blue Cow) - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph La Vache Bleue (The Blue Cow) From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle 1967 See Mourlot 488 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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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall "Song of the Bow"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL ( 1887- 1985 ) “ Song of the Bow” 1958 from ‘The Bible’ Original Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor. Signed with initials and numbered 17/100 in pencil, published...
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Mid-20th Century Marc Chagall Art

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Etching, Watercolor

OU EST LE JOUR ("LES POEMES")
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
In 1968 several of Chagall's poems were published in the album "Les Poemes" (The Poems). He also illustrated this album, featuring a series of 24 woodcuts. Unsigned. From the edi...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Woodcut, Paper

VERS LA RIVE ("LES POEMES")
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
In 1968 several of Chagall's poems were published in the album "Les Poemes" (The Poems). He also illustrated this album, featuring a series of 24 woodcuts. Unsigned. From the edi...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Woodcut, Paper

Then the Boy displayed to the Dervish his Bosom… Arabian Nights
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985 [Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses] Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes Title: Then the Boy displayed to the Dervish his Bosom…, f...
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1940s Contemporary Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

"Derièrre le Miroir, Couverture: La Peintre devant le Village I" Original Litho
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Derièrre le Miroir, Couverture: La Peintre devant le Village I (Cover of Dèrriere le Miroir No. 182: The Artist at the Village I) M 603a" is an ...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Paradise
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Paradise Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 22 3/4" x 18 3/4" Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" I...
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1960s Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph 1983 Printed by Mourlot Dimensions: 48 x 65 cm Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (Epreuve D'artiste, Artist proof) asi...
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1980s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Le Cerf se Voyant dans l'Eau - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1952
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints (plus 100 not signed). From the series “Les Fables de La Fontaine”, realized by Chagall between 1952 Image Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm Ref. Cramer 2...
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1920s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Etching

"Front Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III, " M 577, " Original Color Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Front Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III," M 577" is an original Lithograph by Marc Chagall. This painting is primarily red with black lines defining the figures and objects. Followi...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Odyssey : Odysseus and Telemachus - Original lithograph - Mourlot #798
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL Odyssey : Odysseus and Telemachus Original stone lithograph Printed in Mourlot workshop, 1975 On Arches vellum 42.5 x 32 cm (c. 17 x 13 inch) REFERENCES : Catalog rai...
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1970s Modern Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching 1958 Printed by Tériade Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm Handsigned and numbered handcolored Edition: 100 Reference: Cramer 30. 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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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Etching

"Sara et Abimelech (Sarah and Abimelech), M 239/262" Original Color Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sara et Abimelech (Sarah and Abimelech), M 239/262" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall.This original color lithograph was designed for and ...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Revolution - Original 1960s Poster for Galiera Museum
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Marc CHAGALL (1887 - 1985) Poster for "Les peintres témoins de leur temps Musée Galiera" 1963 Created by Charles Sorlier after Chagall's 1937 painting...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Art

Tamar belle-fille de Juda
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Tamar belle-fille de Juda Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

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...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall Femme à l’oiseau
By Marc Chagall
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Marc Chagall Femme à l’oiseau Issue of the portfolio Twelve contemporaries Éditions d'art du Lion . Paris 1959 Published in 1000 copies Signature in the board 900 euros
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1950s Marc Chagall Art

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Paper

"Agar dans le Désert (Hagar in the Desert)" Original Color Lithograph by Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Agar dans le Désert (Hagar in the Desert), M 241/264" an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dess...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Lithograph

Le Clown Acrobate - Etching & Aquatint by Marc Chagall - 1967
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-signed. Edition 13/35 prints, numbered and hand signed in pencil. Image Dimensions : 31 x 24 cm Passepartout included : 70 x 50 cm Ref. Cramer 12. Very good conditions.
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Art

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Etching, Aquatint

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  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 7, 2024
    Marc Chagall painted around 10,000 works during the course of his 75-year career. The Russian-French modernist worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, he developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art. On 1stDibs, find a selection of Marc Chagall art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    To pronounce Marc Chagall, say "Mark Shu-GALL." The artist's real name was Moishe Shagal. Although the artist changed his name, he referenced his heritage in many works by including fish to represent his father who worked as a herring merchant. Shop a variety of Marc Chagall art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Marc Chagall was a painter, illustrator, glass artisan, print maker and set designer who made a lasting impact on modern art. He was born on July 7, 1887, in Liozna, Belarus, and died on March 28, 1985, in Saint Paul de Vence, France. On 1stDibs, shop a selection of Marc Chagall art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 26, 2024
    Marc Chagall is famous for his art. He is one of the best known artists of the 20th century.

    Chagall produced magnificent stained-glass windows for structures in France, Israel, Germany and the United States, and his lively paintings of Paris are revered all over the world. The Russian-French modernist worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, Chagall developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art.

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  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 26, 2024
    Yes, Marc Chagall worked in the Expressionist style, but he is associated with a range of modes and was inspired by various styles.

    Chagall's lithographs as well as his other prints and paintings widely influenced the fantastic imagery of Surrealism and other movements of the 20th century. Known for his dreamlike creations inspired by folk art, Chagall drew on the colors and forms introduced by Cubism and Fauvism for a distinctive style all his own.

    Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. You can certainly detect the trademark bright colors and dramatic, exaggerated brushstrokes of Expressionism reflected in Chagall’s works such as his Vision of Paris and I and the Village.

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  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Liozna, Belarus. He was an influential artist who worked in a variety of mediums, including paint, stained glass and illustrations. Chagall died on March 28, 1985, in Saint Paul de Vence, France. On 1stDibs, find a collection of Marc Chagall art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Marc Chagall was born in Liozna, Belarus on July 7, 1887. He went on to become one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, creating works that drew from the movements of Cubism, Surrealism and Fauvism. On 1stDibs, find a selection of Marc Chagall art.
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    To collect Marc Chagall art, seek out works from well known and respected sources. When it comes to making an investment of any kind, it’s important to conduct research and only work with reputable sellers. You can shop the collections of art dealers, auction houses and trusted online platforms to find authentic Marc Chagall paintings, prints and other works.

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    Marc Chagall used a variety of materials in his art. The Russian-French modernist worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, Chagall developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art.

    Chagall produced magnificent stained-glass windows for structures in France, Israel, Germany and the United States. Additionally, his lively paintings of Paris are revered all over the world. Chagall had created etchings of Russian life during the 1920s but would explore printmaking later more deeply, during the 1950s, when he sought guidance from veteran lithographer Charles Sorlier, who became a friend and collaborator.

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  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Many artists and things inspired Marc Chagall. Historians believe that his Jewish heritage and his hometown of Liozna, Belarus, served as sources of inspiration throughout his life. His work also displays the influence of surrealist, cubist, symbolist and fauve artists. On 1stDibs, shop a variety of Marc Chagall art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Marc Chagall lived many places over the course of his life. He was born in Liozna, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. When he began working as an artist, he lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, Russia; Paris, France; and Berlin, Germany. During World War II, he relocated to the U.S. and then returned to Paris where he primarily resided until his death in 1985. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Marc Chagall art.
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    Marc Chagall’s body of work is quite big. Over the course of his 75-year career, Chagall created approximately 10,000 pieces, including prints, paintings, book illustrations, stained glass windows and more.

    The Russian-French modernist worked in nearly every artistic medium, and Chagall’s vibrant and densely colorful prints are known around the world. Characterized by a bold color palette and whimsical imagery, his works are often narrative, depicting small-village scenes and quotidian moments of peasant life, as in his late painting The Flight into Egypt from 1980.

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  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Yes, Marc Chagall migrated to the United States. The Jewish artist fled Europe during World War II, moving to New York City in 1941. He settled in France in 1947 and lived there until he died in 1985. On 1stDibs, shop a range of Marc Chagall art.
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    One of Marc Chagall’s most known works is entitled I and the Village. His style mixes bold colors in both the cubism and fauvism style. Shop a selection of Marc Chagall’s pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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    Yes, Marc Chagall used oil paint to produce many of his paintings. He also worked with gouaches and watercolors. Not just a painter, Chagall made stained glass windows, illustrations, prints, ceramics and other types of works throughout his life. Find a collection of Marc Chagall art on 1stDibs.
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    Yes, Marc Chagall personally signed some of his bookplates. Other bookplate illustrations created by the artist bear a reproduction of his signature. Many of the signed versions come from the collections of notable historical figures, including Nicholas II, the last Russian czar. Find signed Marc Chagall lithographs on 1stDibs.
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    A Marc Chagall painting is likely worth anywhere between $50,000 to $70,000 according to current estimates. Marc Chagall is a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin who is credited to be among the pioneering modernists. Adept in several styles and techniques, Chagall was best-known for creating stain-glass, tapestries and murals apart from paintings. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Marc Chagall paintings.

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