Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
Original Marc Chagall 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.
Chagall was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Liozna, Belarus, and one of his earliest teachers was painter Yehuda Pen, who ran a school of drawing and painting in nearby Vitebsk in western Russia. In 1907, Chagall went to St. Petersburg to continue his art studies, including with painter Léon Bakst with whom he would later collaborate on set designs for the Ballets Russes.
Chagall relied on the patronage of the Jewish community to get past the restrictions on Jewish people in Russia, like Maxim Vinaver, who in 1911 supported Chagall in traveling to Paris to study. There, he found a studio in the maze of Montparnasse ateliers nicknamed “La Ruche” (“The Hive”) alongside many fellow Jewish artists from around Europe, such as Expressionist painter Chaïm Soutine and painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani. He also began a long friendship with abstract colorist Robert Delaunay and his wife, artist Sonia Delaunay-Terk, with Chagall bringing some of their ideas of vivid color into his subsequent work.
That first stay in Paris lasted four prolific years, with Chagall absorbing the ideas of French Impressionism and Fauvism, leading to complex and enigmatic pieces, including the 1913 Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers depicting the artist at work in his studio, a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower through the window, and the 1911 I and the Village evoking memories of his Jewish community in Belarus with the face of a goat and a man gazing at each other, enveloped by intersecting colors and shapes.
The outbreak of World War I, which unfolded when Chagall had returned to Russia for his fiancée Bella Rosenberg, cut off his return to Paris. During those years in Russia, he became extremely enthusiastic about the Russian Revolution, in particular its promise to grant full citizenship to Jewish people like him, and was named the Commissar for Art in Vitebsk, although he became disenchanted with its ideology and eventually resigned.
Chagall left the Soviet Union in 1922, living in Berlin and Paris again in 1923. The outbreak of World War II and the Nazi invasion of France compelled him to flee to the United States. (His monographs had been destroyed in Nazi book burnings and some of his works confiscated from museums and displayed as part of a “Degenerate Art” exhibition.) After the war, he returned to France, and throughout the rest of his life, he continued to expand his practice.
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.
Chagall’s vibrant and densely colorful prints are known around the world. There are rare single lithographs from the artist’s largest print portfolios that contain over two dozen colors. In 1960, he was commissioned to paint a new ceiling for the Opéra Garnier in Paris and stained-glass windows for the cathedrals in Metz and Reims around the same time. Chagall’s windows are celebrated today both for their narrative depth and rich swaths of color, and he granted permission to his printmaking associate Sorlier to create lithographs based on his works in stained glass.
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Artist: Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
Condition : Excellent
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.
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Solomon's Prayer
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Solomon's Prayer
Etching from 1958.
Edition of 100
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 37 cm.
Hand signed.
Publisher: T...
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1950s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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The Angel, Framed Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Original lithograph from Marc Chagall's Book of Lithographs published in 1960.
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches
Frame Size: 22 x 19 inches
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Meeting of Jacob and Rachel at the well
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Meeting of Jacob and Rachel at the well
Etching from 1958.
Edition of 100
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 37 cm.
Han...
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The Wolf, the Mother, and the Child
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Wolf, the Mother, and the Child
Etching from 1954.
Edition of 85.
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 39 x 30 cm.
Referen...
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Le Clown fleuri (The Clown with flowers)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 24 x 21 in
No. 399 in the Catalogue Raisonne of Chagall's lithographs
This lithograph came from "The Lithographs of Chagall: Volume II" by Fernand Mourlot and Marc Chagall....
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The Prophet Daniel in the Lions' Den
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Prophet Daniel in the Lions' Den
Lithograph from 1956.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Mourlot 142.
On the re...
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The Juggler
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Juggler
Original Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
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Marc Chagall Daniel in the Lions' Den, from The Bible Lithographs 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Daniel in the Lions' Den
Year: 1956
Portfolio: The Bible Lithographs 1956
Edition: 6500
Signed: No
Reference: Cramer 25, Mourlot 142
Fr...
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Circus Pirouette - Color lithograph on Arches paper
By Marc Chagall
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on Arches paper, Edited in 1961
Limited edition of 50 copies
Current copy numbered: 30/50 on the lower left corner
signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner
p...
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1960s Abstract Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Le Sept Péchés Capitaux
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Sept Péchés Capitaux
Etching from 1925.
Edition of 300 proofs.
Dimensions of work: 25 x 19.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Kornfeld 47....
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Self-Portrait (Frontispiece), from Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Self-Portrait (Frontispiece)
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 16 5/8"
Sheet Size: ...
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Marc Chagall, The Lovers in the Tree, from Tales of Boccaccio, 1950
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Les Amants dans l’arbre (The Lovers in the Tree), from Contes de Boccace, peintures du manuscrit des ducs de Bourgogne, ...
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L'Echelle de Jacob, Peintures Bibliques Recentes 1966-1976 by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1977
Dimensions: 30 x 20.75 in, 76.2 x 52.7 cm
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Marc Chagall Cover, from The Bible Lithographs 1956
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Lithograph
Title: Cover
Year: 1956
Portfolio: The Bible Lithographs 1956
Edition: 6500
Signed: No
Reference: Cramer 25, Mourlot 120
Framed Size: 22 1/2 x...
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A Blue Fish
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - A Blue Fish
Original Lithograph from 1957.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 40 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
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Flowers in the Hand
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Flowers in the Hand
Original Lithograph from 1957.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 20 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition...
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Les Ames Mortes Vignette Plate 10, Surrealist Etching by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Les Ames Mortes Vignette Plate 10, Year: 1948, Medium: Etching on Arches, Image Size: 9.25 x 7.25 inches, Size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.94 cm),...
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Marc Chagall, The Monsters of Notre-Dame, from Derriere le miroir, 1954
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Les Monstres de Notre-Dame (The Monsters of Notre-Dame), from the folio Derriere le miroir, No. 67–68, originates from t...
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Adam and Eve
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Adam and Eve
Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure ship...
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Le Sept Péchés Capitaux
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Sept Péchés Capitaux
Etching from 1925.
Edition of 300 proofs.
Dimensions of work: 25 x 19.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Kornfeld 47....
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Cirque
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Cirque
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 250 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 42 x 32.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Mourlot 487, ...
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Bouquet in Hand, Paris, from: Chagall: Jacques Lassaigne - French Russian Paris
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist ‘Marc Chagall’ at the lower right margin.
It is also numbered 10 from the edition of 90 at the lower left margin.
It...
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Marc Chagall - A Midsummer Night's dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - A Midsummer Night's dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph
1975
Dimensions: Sheet : 97.5 x 71.5 cm Image : 80 x 60 cm
Handsigned and numbered
Edition: 50
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Cirque
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Cirque
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 250 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 42 x 32.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Mourlot 487, ...
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Marc Chagall - 'Bouquet for Fernand' From Souvenirs de Portraits d'Artistes
By Marc Chagall
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Marc Chagall
Bouquet for Fernand
Original lithograph in colors on paper
Mourlout
Souvenirs de Portraits d'Artistes
1972
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Blue Still Life
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Blue Still Life
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir 99-100
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1957
Edition: 2500
Frame Size: 19 1/2" x 17 3/4"
Sheet Size: 15" x 11"
Signa...
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Enlévement de Chloé, from Daphnis and Chloé
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Marc Chagall Enlévement de Chloé (Chloe is carried off by the Methymneans) from Daphnis and Chloé, 1961, is a stunning and gorgeous work of art tha...
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Boaz wakes up and sees Ruth
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Boaz wakes up and sees Ruth
Lithograph from 1960.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast ...
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Marc Chagall - The Candlestick - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
The Candlestick, from Jean Leymarie, Vitraux pour Jérusalem (Jerusalem Windows), André Sauret, Monte Carlo, 1962 (see M. 366-72; see C. books ...
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Scène Biblique
By Marc Chagall
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph printed in gray and black. Signed and numbered in pencil by Chagall, from an edition of 50.
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David (Poèmes, #18)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Greenwich, CT
David is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. Unsigned as...
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Job en prières
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960
"Job en prières"
Unsigned
35 x 26 cm
Excellent condition
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The Rainbow - Signed Lithograph in Colours - French, Russian Art - Symbolism
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887 - 1985
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Russian/French)
Title: The Rainbow, 1969
Technique: Original Ha...
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Marc Chagall "Job In Despair" lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc
Title: Job In Despair
Series: Bible
Date: 1960
Medium: Lithograph
Unframed Dimensions: 13.9" x 10.5"
Framed Dimensions: 24" x 2...
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Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Unsigned, as published in "Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II"
Edition of several thousand
Condition : Excellent
M...
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Marc Chagall - Moses - 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...
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1950s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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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 Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Frontispiece from the Jerusalem Windows series
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph
Title: Frontispiece from the Jerusalem Windows series
Year: 1962
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 20...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall "Dédicace"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985)
"Dédicace"
1968
Color lithograph
signed and numbered ##/50 in pencil
Image: 17 7/8 x 15 1/4 inches.
Framed: 38 x 34 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches.
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Mid-19th Century Surrealist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall 'Moses & the Burning Bush, 1966' original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: MARC CHAGALL
Title: Moses & the Burning Bush (FROM STORY OF THE EXODUS)
Medium: Lithograph on arches paper
Image Size: 18.50x13.50 inches
paper size: 20 x 15 inches
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Boaz Wakes Up and Sees Ruth at His Feet
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Boaz Wakes Up and Sees Ruth at His Feet
Portfolio: 1960 Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Original lithograph
Date: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1...
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Self Portrait (Frontispiece) from, The Lithographs of Chagall, Volume I - French
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist ‘Marc Chagall’ at the lower right margin.
It is also numbered 2 from the edition of 40, at the lower left margin.
It...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Rachel Hides Her Father's Household Goods, from 1960 Drawings for the Bible
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Rachel Hides Her Father's Household Goods
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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1970 lithograph by Marc Chagall for the French art review XXe Siècle
By Marc Chagall
Located in PARIS, FR
Playful, tender, and steeped in dreamlike emotion, this original 1970 lithograph by Marc Chagall was created as a contribution to the French art review XXe Siècle—an influential publ...
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1970s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
Original 1962 lithographic poster by Marc Chagall - L’Oiseau Vert - Mourlot
By Marc Chagall
Located in PARIS, FR
Dreamlike and poetic, this original 1962 lithographic poster was created by Marc Chagall for his exhibition at the renowned Galerie Maeght in Paris, held during Juin–Juillet 1962. Ti...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Marc Chagall - Colorful 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...
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1950s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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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 Prints and Multiples
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"Le jeu des acrobats" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. The catalogue reference is Mourlot 401. Printed in 1963 at the Mourlot Freres atelier and published in the "Chagall Lithographe II" catalogue raisonne. S...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Hagar in the Desert - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Ciel des Amoureux (The lover's heaven)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Framed 23 x 19.75 in
No. 393 in the Catalogue Raisonne of Chagall's lithographs
This lithograph came from "The Lithographs of Chagall: Volume II" by Fernand Mourlot and Marc Chaga...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXe Siecle-Hommage a Marc Chagall
Color lithograph, 1969
Unsigned as issued by XXe Siecle
From: XXe Siecle, Volume, Special Issue Marc Chagall
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. M...
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1960s French School Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall 'Pharaohs Daughter and Moses, 1966' original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: MARC CHAGALL
Title: Pharaohs Daughter and Moses (FROM STORY OF THE EXODUS)
Medium: Lithograph on arches paper
Image Size: 18.50x13.50 inches
paper size: 20 x 15 inches
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Marc Chagall "Paris de ma fenêtre" 1969-1970 Paris from My Window - Color litho
By Marc Chagall
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marc Chagall
"Paris de ma fenêtre"
1969-1970
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
32.5 x 23.75 inches (image size)
39.5 x 27.5 inches (sheet size)
Edition of 50 + 25 AP
Signe...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Lithograph
"Rahab and the Spies of Jericho" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve in 1960 for a special edition devoted exclusively to Chagall's original Bibl...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Répit, 1968 (Poèmes, #9)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Greenwich, CT
Répit (Respite) is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame. U...
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20th Century Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Woodcut
"Moses with the Tablets of Law" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for Verve in 1956 for a special edition devoted exclusively to Chagall's original Bible art. Size: 1...
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1950s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Blue Still Life
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1957
Edition : 50/90
Publisher : Maeght, Paris
Printer : Mourlot, Paris
Catalog : [Mourlot 206]
39.00 cm. x 28.00 cm. 15.35 in. x 11.02 in. (paper)
24.00 cm. x 19.00 cm....
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1950s Abstract Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Wedding in a Small Village - Original lithograph - (Mourlot #487)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL
Wedding in a Small Village, 1968
Original lithograph (Mourlot workshop)
Unsigned
On vellum 24 x 18 cm (c. 10 x 6.5 inch)
REFERENCES : Catalog Raisonne Chagall lithogra...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Sept Péchés Capitaux
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le Sept Péchés Capitaux
Etching from 1925.
Edition of 300 proofs.
Dimensions of work: 25 x 19.5 cm.
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
Reference: Kornfeld 47....
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1920s Symbolist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022One 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.
- Who is Marc Chagall?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Marc 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.
- What is Marc Chagall famous for?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 26, 2024Marc 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.
Find authentic Marc Chagall prints and paintings on 1stDibs. - Where was Marc Chagall born?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Marc 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.
- When was Marc Chagall born?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Marc 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.
- How do I pronounce Marc Chagall?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022To 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.
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Shop Marc Chagall art on 1stDibs. - What inspired Marc Chagall?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Many 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.
- Where did Marc Chagall live?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Marc 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.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 26, 2024Marc 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.
Find authentic Marc Chagall art on 1stDibs. - 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 28, 2021A 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.
- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 7, 2024Marc 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 26, 2024Yes, 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.
Find a selection of Marc Chagall art on 1stDibs. - 1stDibs ExpertMarch 26, 2024Marc 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.
On 1stDibs, find a selection of Marc Chagall art. - Did Marc Chagall use oil paint?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Yes, 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.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 26, 2024Yes, 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.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Yes, 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.