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
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 Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
1963 original poster by Marc Chagall - Les peintres témoins de leur temps
By Marc Chagall
Located in PARIS, FR
In 1963, the Musée Galliera in Paris hosted the exhibition Les Peintres Témoins de Leur Temps (Painters as Witnesses of Their Time), a significant event that brought together some of...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
Rooster, Bouquet and Acrobat - Stone lithograph (Mourlot #63)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc CHAGALL
Rooster, Bouquet and Acrobat, 1952
Original Lithograph
Unsigned
Edition of 5 copies
Authorized H.C (Hors Commerce)
On Arches vellum, 52 x 41 cm
REFERENCE: Catalogue ra...
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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Wandering Musicians (M.396)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Wandering Musicians is a lithograph by Marc Chagall which was bound in Volume II of the Mourlot catalog raisonné of lithographs, printed in 1963. The image is catalogued in Volum...
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20th Century Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Lithograph
Vision de Paris
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Vision de Paris
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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1960s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Eve incurs God's Displeasure" 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
Le Clown Amoureux (Cramer 56; Mourlot 394), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
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1960s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
L'apparition au cirque (Cramer 56; Mourlot 392), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
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1960s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
"Devant Saint-Jeannet" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original color lithograph. Catalogue reference: M 646. Printed in Paris in 1972 at the Mourlot atelier. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches (320 x 238 mm). Not signed.
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1970s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Couple Devant L’arbre (Cramer 43; Mourlot 292), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
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1960s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Naomi et sus Brus - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Naomi et sus Brus is an artwork realized by March Chagall, 1960s.
Lithograph on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Lithograph on both sheets.
Edition of 6500 unsigned lithographs. ...
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1960s Surrealist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Derriere Le Miroir No 246, Colorful Modern Lithograph by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) - Derriere Le Miroir No 246. Year: 1981, Medium: Lithograph, Size: 15 x 11.25 in. (38.1 x 28.58 cm), Printer: Galerie Maeght, Paris, Publisher: M...
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1980s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
David et Absalon (Mourlot 117-46; Cramer 25)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and F...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Printemps, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Artistique et ...
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1930s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Crossing of the Jordan
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Crossing of the Jordan
Portfolio: Signed Bible Etchings with Watercolor
Year: 1958
Edition: 50/100
Signat...
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Lithograph
David Ascending the Mount of Olives
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: David Ascending the Mount of Olives
Portfolio: Signed Bible Etchings with Watercolor
Year: 1958
Edition: ...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Meeting on Jacob and Rachel
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Meeting of Jacob and Rachel
Portfolio: Signed Bible Etchings with Watercolor
Year: 1958
Edition: 81/100
S...
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Bathsheba at David's Feet
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses Calls Darkness Down on Egypt
Portfolio: Signed Bible Etchings with Watercolor
Year: 1958
Edition: 7...
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Moses Calls Darkness Down on Egypt
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses Calls Darkness Down on Egypt
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signatur...
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Lithograph
Moses and Aaron with Pharaoh
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses and Aaron with Pharaoh
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Uns...
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Lithograph
Moses and Aaron with the Elders
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses and Aaron with the Elders
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: ...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
God Sends Aaron into the Desert to Meet Moses
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: God Sends Aaron into the Desert to Meet Moses
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/2...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
God Turns Moses' Staff into a Serpent
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: God Turns Moses' Staff into a Serpent
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signa...
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Lithograph
Moses and the Burning Bush
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses and the Burning Bush
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsig...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Garments of Ministration
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Garments of Ministration
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigne...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
God Directs Moses to Make Vestments for Use in the Sanctuary
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: God Directs Moses to Make Vestments for Use in the Sanctuary
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 196...
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Lithograph
The Ten Commandments
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: The Ten Commandments
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigned (s...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Moses Casts Out the Tablets
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses Casts Out the Tablets
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsi...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Golden Earrings
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: The Golden Earrings
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigned (si...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Two Tablets of the Testimony
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Two Tablets of the Testimony
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Uns...
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Lithograph
Thou Shalt Anoint Aaron
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Thou Shalt Anoint Aaron
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigned...
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Lithograph
Moses Shows the Elders the Tablets of the Law
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses Shows the Elders the Tablets of the Law
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/2...
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Lithograph
Moses Blesses Joshua
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses Blesses Joshua
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigned (s...
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Lithograph
The People May Drink
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: The People May Drink
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigned (s...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Miriam Took a Timbrell
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Miriam Took a Timbrell
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 41/250
Signature: Unsigned ...
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Lithograph
Moses Calls the Waters Down on the Egyptian Army
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Medium: Original lithograph on Arches wove paper
Title: Moses Calls the Waters Down on the Egyptian Army
Portfolio: The Story of the Exodus
Year: 1966
Edition: 4...
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1960s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Christ in the pendulum clock
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Rooster with Crescent
Original Lithograph from 1957.
Dimensions of work: 23 x 20 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
The work is in Excellent conditi...
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1950s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Paradise - 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
Marc Chagall - Meeting of Ruth and Boaz - 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
"The Barefoot Lumberjack" Etching from "Les Ames Mortes" by Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Barefoot Lumberjack" Etching from "Les Ames Mortes" by Marc Chagall
Playful etching of a lumberjack by Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985). A stout lumberjack is shown holing his...
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1940s Post-War Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Ink, Laid Paper
Le Peintre Devant Le Village I (Mourlot 603)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Aventura, FL
Le Peintre Devant Le Village I, 1969. Lithograph in colors on Arches paper. Hand signed lower right by Marc Chagall. Hand numbered 42/75 lower left. Mourlot 603. Published by Mae...
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1970s Surrealist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
Marc Chagall "La famille du peintre" 1972 The Painter’s Family Color lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marc Chagall
"La famille du peintre"
1972
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
21.75 x 16.75 inches (image size)
29 x 19.5 inches (sheet size)
Edition of 50 + EA
Signed in pen...
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1970s Modern Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Archival Paper, Lithograph
Moïse fait jaillir leau du rocher
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Moïse fait jaillir leau du rocher
Etching from 1952.
From “Bible”. 2. Edition 15 of 100.
Enhanced with watercolour by the artist.
Dimensions of work: 5...
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1950s Symbolist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
1975 original poster by Marc Chagall for the Musée National Message Biblique
By Marc Chagall
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1975 original poster by Marc Chagall for the Musée National Message Biblique is a remarkable fusion of fine art and printmaking, embodying the deep spirituality and vivid imagina...
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1970s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph, Paper
Bible : Prophecy about Jerusalem, 1939 - Original Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958)
Bible : Prophecy about Jerusalem (Prophétie sur Jérusalem), 1939
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 17.3 x ...
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1930s Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist 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
Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Le Jeu des Acrobates, original lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe II"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
As published in Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
Unsigned, as issued, from the edition of several thousand
Condition : Excellent
Reference: Mourlot/Gauss 401
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...
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Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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The Circus : a Breathtaking Spectacle - Original Lithograph (Mourlot #514)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
The Circus : a Breathtaking Spectacle, 1967
Original lithograph (Mourlot Workshop)
On Arches vellum 42 x 32 cm (c. 17 x 13 in)
REFERENCE : Catalog raiso...
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Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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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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Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Composition, Contes de Boccace, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Marc Chagall
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Contes de Boccace, peinture...
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1950s Expressionist Marc Chagall Prints and Multiples
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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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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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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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