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"PLACEBO.3" Plexiglass Print 39' x 31' inch Edition 3/25 by Edyta Grzyb
By Edyta Grzyb
Located in Culver City, CA
"PLACEBO.3" Plexiglass Print 39' x 31' inch Edition 2/25 by Edyta Grzyb
Fine art pigment print on Hahnemühle, 300 g under acrylic glass
2020
Each print is signed on the bottom margin Year / Title / Signature and has a certificate of authenticity.
Edyta Grzyb (born 1984)living in Poland
The preferred motif of her work is people; Strictly speaking, she is interested in their emotions, expressing them through contrasting colors, and occasionally blurring the lines between reality and fiction. She is of the opinion that painting lives through vivid colours, stimulating esthetic feelings and emotions in the observer. Through the combination of cool tones and intensive neon colours, she transports her audience into a world of fantasy.
Used technique: Acrylics on canvas in Pop Art- Style.
Edyta has been painting since 2013 and has specialized in acrylic painting. Many of her works are already in private collections. Since 2015, she has been increasingly involved in group exhibitions in Hamburg, Munich, Warsaw and exhibited at the Art Fairs in New York and Hong Kong.
Exhibitions and events
2019: March – AAF Art Fair New York and AAF London Battersea, Mai – AAF Art Fair London Hampstead
Mai – ARTMUC Art Fair Munic
Nov - AAF Art Fair Hamburg
2018: Nov – AAF Art Fair in Hamburg
Sep – Group Exhibition “Golden Age by Bentley” with Galerie Ewa Helena in Hamburg Mai – ARTMUC Art Fair in Munich
Mai – AAF Art Fair in Hong Kong
March – Group Exhibition, FIBAK Gallery in Warsaw
March – AAF Art Fair in Brussel and in New York
Feb – Group Exhibition in the Fabrik der Künste Hamburg, Galerie Ewa Helena
2017: Nov – AAF Art Fair Amsterdam Nov – AAF Art Fair Hamburg
Jul/Sep – Group Exhibition in the Aqua Lounch – Porto Cervo (Sardinia) Jun – Exhibition by Bartek Janusz (Hair Stylist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Plexiglass, Pigment
Salvador Dali - Women - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Women - Original Etching
Embossed signature
From the edition of 731
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Des Piferari - Lithograph by Antoinette Haudebourt-Lescot - 1822 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Des Piferari devant une Madone is a Lithograph realized by Antoinette Haudebourt-Lescot.
Signed on plate and titled on the lower margin. Passpartout included cm 50x32.5
Good condi...
Category
19th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View of Venice - Etching by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
By Alcione Gubellini
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th Century.
Edition of 16.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Excellent condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jonah and the Storm at Sea - Héliogravure by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Héliogravure on brown-toned paper, no signature.
Héliogravure on bot sheets, recto and verso.
Edition of 6500 unsigned copies. Printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade on the A...
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
I Am The Last Of My Kind
By Tracey Emin
Located in London, GB
Published by the Royal Academy
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Vanitas Vanitatum - Lithograph - 1964
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Vanitas Vanitatum is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969.
Sign...
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View of the Arch of Constantine - Etching by G.B.Piranesi - 19th Century
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Roma, IT
An early 19th century proof, in fair condition but with a very good inking, of the plate "View of the Arch of Constantine". It belongs to the first Paris Edition of 1800-1807.
The f...
Category
19th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Gens de Justice - Lithograph by Honoré Daumier - 1857
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Daumier in 1845, belonging to the Series "Les Gens de Justice"
Table no. 10 of the Series.
Very good condition.
Ref. Delteil 1346
Category
1850s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Absolute Real - Lithograph by Man Ray - 1964
By Man Ray
Located in Roma, IT
The Absolute Real is a lithograph realized by Man Ray in 1964.
Hand-singed in pencil by the Artist.
Lithograph in Red Ink, 1964. Published by Schwarz, the lithograph is part of th...
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Saba - XXI Century Contemporary Linocut Print Surrealism, Black & white
By Anna Gawlikowska
Located in Warsaw, PL
Anna Gawlikowska is a Polish artist born in 1980.
She studied printmaking, painting, and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts of Wroclaw in Poland in the workshops of professor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut, Paper
The Metro Station in Paris - Original Woodcut by S. Birga - 1994
Located in Roma, IT
The Metro Station in Paris is an original contemporary artwork realized by Sergio Birga (Florence, 1940) in 1994.
Original B/W xylograph on ivory paper. Pa...
Category
1990s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Reclining Woman - Original Lithograph after Egon Schiele - 2007
By Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Woman is a beautiful and original lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym charcoal drawing realized by the Austrian ma...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mois de La Photo a Paris (after) Jim Dine
By Jim Dine
Located in London, GB
Mois de La Photo a Paris
By (after) Jim Dine
Jim Dine (born 1935) is an American artist known for his diverse body of work, which spans painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Skeleton - Etching by Louis Legrand - 1771
By Louis Legrand
Located in Roma, IT
Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807).
Signed in plate.
The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descri...
Category
1770s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman In Red - Original Lithograph by P. Borra - 1973
By Pompeo Borra
Located in Roma, IT
Woman In Red is a beautiful colored lithograph realized by the Italian artist Pompeo Borra (Milan, 1898-1973).
Edited by La Nuova Foglio, Macerata.
Hand-signed in pencil "P. Borra"...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Oiseaux - Lithograph after Georges Braque - Mid-20th Century
By (after) Georges Braque
Located in Roma, IT
Oiseaux is an lithograph realized by an anonymous artist after Georges Braque in the 20th Century.
Printed by Mourlot. Good conditions.
The artw...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Blondie Silver - Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Silver Blondie by BATIK
Archival pigment pop art print of pop culture icon Debbie Harry of punk rock glam band Blondie –
signed and numbered on front by the artist
limited edition...
Category
2010s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Zodiac Signs On Lamps - Etching by Nicola Fiorillo - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Zodiac Signs On Lamps from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Fiorillo in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with some cutti...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dance Step - Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1975
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Dance Step is a contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1975
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed, numbered and titled on the lower margin.
Original title: Passo di danza
...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Goatherd in Tivoli - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
By Bartolomeo Pinelli
Located in Roma, IT
Il Capraro di Tivoli is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the left, “Pinel...
Category
1810s Realist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Pianist - Lithograph by Raoul Dufy - 1920
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Roma, IT
The Pianist is a lithograph realized by Raoul Dufy in 1920.
Good conditions.
Edition of 110. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes i...
Category
1920s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pisces - Etching by Charles De la Haye - 18th Century
By Charles de la Haye
Located in Roma, IT
Pisces is an original etching artwork on paper realized by Charles De la Haye after Andrea Stech, in the 18th century.
Signed on the plate on the lower.
Good...
Category
18th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Bible : Juda's Daugther - Original Lithograph (Mourlot #243)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
The Bible, Juda's Daughter
Original lithograph (Mourlot Workshop)
On paper 36 x 26.5 cm (c. 14.2 x 10.2 in)
Second lithograph on the back, see last pictur...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Red-Haired Girl with Spread Legs
By (after) Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Red-Haired Girl with Spread Legs is a beautiful lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It is a reproduction of the homonym painting realized in gouache, watercolor,...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Parisian - Lithograph by Gustave Dorè - 1854
By Gustave Doré
Located in Roma, IT
Parisian is aLithograph realized by Gustave Dore in 1854.
Good conditions except for some foxings.
Hand-singed.
The artwork is depicted in a well-balan...
Category
1850s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hand with Flowers
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Original lithograph on paper
Bears the AWAAB and Estate of Andy Warhol stamps, on verso
Annotated with initials 'LC' and a unique authenticity number in pencil, on verso
Accompanied ...
Category
1950s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Temple of Asclepius with the Chariot - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 1753
By Giuseppe Vasi
Located in Roma, IT
The architect is Paolo Posi, and the image is engraved by Giuseppe Vasi.
The title: Prospetto della prima machina de fuochi d'artifizio, rappresentante il Tempio di Esculapio figl...
Category
1750s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Mère et enfant, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned and numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Mère et enfant, 1989
Lithographie sur papierJapon, justifiée et numérotée
Signée en bas à droite
67 x 50,5 cm / 76 x 54 cm
Bibliographie:
CR Jansem, 1993, n°...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Musiciennes – lithograph, hand-signed and numbered
By Le Corbusier
Located in Zurich, CH
Together with "Bouteilles" one of the largest and most sought after lithographs by Le Corbusier, printed by Mourlot on Arches after a collage by LC....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Fight on the Moon - Lithograph N ° 2
By Corneille
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Beautiful lithograph by Corneille, from the portfolio Fight on the Moon.
Lithograph on art paper
1985
38 x 28 cm
Numbered 94/150
500 €
Category
1980s Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antique Map - Mare Pacificum - Etching by Johannes Janssonius - 1650s
By Johannes Janssonius
Located in Roma, IT
Mare Pacificum is an antique map realized in 1650 by Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664).
The Map is Hand-colored etching, with coeval watercolorang.
Good conditions with slight foxing...
Category
1650s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: WITH THE COMING OF... Hand signed & numbered Superflat Pop Art
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Madrid, Madrid
WITH THE COMING OF SPRING, THE GRASS RETURNS NATURALLY
Date of creation: 2013
Medium: Offset lithograph with silver on paper
Edition: 300
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Condition: In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Pop Art Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Varnish, Lithograph, Offset
Rocking Horse - Etching by Zivko Djak - 1973
By Zivko Djak
Located in Roma, IT
Rocking horse is an original Artwork realized in 1973 by Zivko Djak (1942-2011).
Original black and white etching
Good conditions.
Includes frame: 32 x 1.5 x 26 cm
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin
Numbered on the lower left. Edition of 75. Image Dimensions: 12 x 10 cm
Zivko Djak (1942-2011). One of the most important Serbian artists...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Polyxène, Fille de Priam, est égorgée sur la Tombe d'Achille
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Original etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide" realized by Pablo Picasso in 1930 and published by Skira. Edition of 145 copies.
Very good conditions.
Re. Bloch p....
Category
1930s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
God of the River - Lithograph - 399 copies
By George Braque
Located in Paris, IDF
MEDIUM : Lithograph
PRINTER : Atelier Art-Litho
EDITOR : Armand ISRAEL, Paris
SIGNATURE : Printed
LIMITED : 399 copies unumbered
PAPER : Arches vellum
SIZE : 18 x 23"
CONDITION : E...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman, Flowers and Potteries - Lithograph - Numbered / 100
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Marais (1913 - 1998)
Woman, Flowers and Potteries
Lithograph and offset print
Signed with the stamp of the artist
Bears also a printed signature in the plate
Numbered / 100
On ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Boy Hidden in a Fish, 1969 - David Hockney Print, Edition of 400
By David Hockney
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, photographer, designer and dog-lover.
Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, Hockney made appa...
Category
1960s Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Gargantua - Rare Book Illustrated by Gustave Dorè - 1854
By Gustave Doré
Located in Roma, IT
Gargantua is an original modern rare book by François Rabelais illustrated for the first time by Gustave Doré (Strasbourg, 1832 – 23 January 1883) in 1854...
Category
1850s Modern Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Pegase Captif - after Odilon Redon - 1923
By Odilon Redon
Located in Roma, IT
Pegase Captif is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon.
They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923.
...
Category
1920s Symbolist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
19th Century Japanese Woodblock - Discarded Lovers
Located in Corsham, GB
A charismatic Japanese woodblock print depicting a woman denying the attention of two disgruntled men. Signed and inscribed with characters. Presented in a contemporary wooden frame....
Category
19th Century Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
A horse! A horse! A kingdom for a horse!
By Mychael Barratt
Located in Deddington, GB
A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! by Mychael Barratt [2021]
limited_edition
Silkscreen print on paper
Edition number 100
Image size: H:70 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Bulls - Original Etching by M. Chirnoaga - Late 20th Century
By Marcel Chirnoaga
Located in Roma, IT
Minotaur is an original etching artwork by Marcel Chirnoaga (Romanian, 1930–2008) one of the most important artists of fantasy painting and mythology subjects in the XX century.
The...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Winnie the Pooh And Tiger Too - Original 1974 Lobby Card
Located in London, GB
Winnie the Pooh And Tiger Too - Original 1974 Lobby Card
Vintage 1974 Lobby Card:
Rabbit is tired of Tigger always bouncing him, so he gets Pooh and Piglet together to come up wit...
Category
1970s Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Cardboard
Green and Gold:Contemporary Limited Edition Etching
By Ian Laurie
Located in Brecon, Powys
20/25
Signed
Mounted 14 x 11 inches
Ian Laurie was born in 1933 and is a self taught artist who made the transition from industry to artistry around 40 years ago when he & his wife ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
The European Macabre Dance N.5 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
By Alberto Martini
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.5 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915.
Signed ...
Category
1910s Symbolist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Kiss - signed limited edition Oversize print
By Blank Barbie
Located in London, GB
The Kiss 2022
by Blank Barbie
Pop Art Print of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffiths in a TV show scene.
Blank Barbie is a contemporary pop artist currently...
Category
2010s Pop Art Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vienna, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" - Etching - Old Master
By Franz Hogenberg
Located in Roma, IT
Braun G., Hogenberg F., "Vienna", from the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image Dim: cm 15 x 47, Dim: cm 20 x 53.
Wonderful B/W Aquatint r...
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Intimate Circumstance - Linocut on Paper by Jean Barbe / Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Intimate circumstance is a beautiful black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by the Italian artist, Mino Maccari.
Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe...
Category
1940s Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Jean COCTEAU and Raymond MORETTI : Happy Days - Original Hansigned Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Cocteau and Raymond Moretti
Happy Days
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate, handsigned by Raymond Moretti
Numbered 1/79 - Very look for artist proof bearing n°1
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Surrounded Islands - Leporello, Signed Print
By Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Surrounded Islands, 1980 - 83, 2009
Medium: 7-part leporello, digital pigment print (Ditone) on 260 g Hahnemühle Baryta paper
Dimensions: 32 x 175 cm (12½ x...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital Pigment
Forest 8 - Contemporary Linocut, Flora, Nature, Polish artist, Young art
By Marta Garbaczewska
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA GARBACZEWSKA (born 1987) - Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Diploma in 2012 in the studio of prof. Maria Targońska, annex by prof. Czesław Tumielewicz.
PROVENAN...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Dogs 2 - Contemporary Woodcut Print, Figurative, Black & white, Polish artist
By Zdzislaw Wiatr
Located in Warsaw, PL
ZDZISŁAW WIATR (born 1960)
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, at the Faculty of Graphic Arts in Katowice, where in 1986 he received a diploma with the honourable m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
The Temptress - Lithograph by Erté - 1970s
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
The Temptress is a modern artwork realized in 1970s by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
On the lower margin « HC ».
Provenanc...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: And Then x6 (Blue) Hand signed & numb. Superflat, Pop Art
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Madrid, Madrid
And Then x 6 (Blue: The Polke Method)
Date of creation: 2015
Medium: Offset lithograph with silver
Media: Paper
Edition: 300
Size: 50 x 50 cm
Observations: Offset lithograph with sil...
Category
2010s Pop Art Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Varnish, Lithograph, Offset
Le ciel de Mercure - Orignal signed engraving - 150 copies
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Paris, IDF
Salvador Dali
Le Ciel de Mercure (1960)
Heliogravure reworked with drypoint
Signed in the plate
On BFK Rives Vellum paper
Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
References:
- F...
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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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