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Item Ships From: Europe
Woman in Pink - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 90 pieces.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, Monochromatic
By Siergiej Timochow
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Nude on a chair - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print
By Siergiej Timochow
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960.
He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus.
His acrylic and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Cardboard, Monotype
Wim van Broekhoven "Standing Nude" Nude
By Wim van Broekhoven
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Standing Nude by Wim van Broekhoven.
Drawing from models and observing urban, industrial and natural landscapes are recurring motifs.
Drawing from a model is about representing expr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Ink
$1,141 Sale Price
20% Off
Nude -Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1980s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is a lithograph, realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in the 1980.
The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent.
Artist's proof.
Hand-signed.
...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
In the Woods - Original Lithograph by Giuseppe Ingegno - 1979
Located in Roma, IT
In the Woods is an original Lithograph realized by Giuseppe Ingegno in 1979.
Colored print.
Good conditions.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower rig...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Page of Swords - Etching by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Page of Swords is an etching realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Hand-signed.
Numbered, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Etching by Sergio Barletta - 1974
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching on cardoboard realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974.
sheet dimensions, 25 x 17 cm.
Edition XL/XL
Handsigned in pencil in the lower right margin.
Good condtions
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Entangled
Located in Berlin, DE
Willibrord Haas (*1936 Schramberg), Entangled, 2008. etching, 28 cm (height) x 17 cm (width). Signed “Willibrord Haas” in pencil by the artist, dated “2008”, titled “Verschränkt” and...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Woman in Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in Yellow is a screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976. Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right (Simbari 76). Edition of 90 prints.
The artwork represents a female...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Polly_1 - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Subject n. 7 - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 90 pieces.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude of Woman - Lithograph by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is a Lithograph realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is excellent.
Hand-signed.
Artist's ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jason Keeley, Stretch and Flow, Limited Edition Contour Art, Minimalist Artwork
By Jason Keeley
Located in Deddington, GB
Jason Keeley
Stretch and Flow
Limited Edition Silkscreen Print
Edition of 54
Image Size: H 66cm x W 103cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indicat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Woman - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1975
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1975.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered . Edition 89/90.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile wit...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Woman - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1970s
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Woman i is a screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered .Edition 11/90.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile with an abs...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Woman in Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1970s
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in Yellow is an original serigraph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile with an abstract multicolour composition. There are colo...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude on Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude on Red - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Polly - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Salvador Dali - Nude Couple
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude Couple - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lops...
Category
1960s Surrealist Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Diva - Original Lithograph by Oscar Pelosi - 1980s
By Oscar Pelosi
Located in Roma, IT
The Diva is an original colored lithograph realized by Oscar Pelosi in the 1980s.
The artwork is hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right. Numbered on the lower left. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude - Original Etching by Carlo Marcantonio - 1970s
By Carlo Marcantonio
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching artwork on cardboard realized by Marcantonio.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a lying nude through co...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Lovers I - Etching by Giacomo Manzù - 1970
By Giacomo Manzú
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 125 prints.
Published in the artwork series: "Giacomo Manzù: Fifteen original etchings and aquatints", by Touchstone Suite, New York, 1970.
Giacomo Manzù (B...
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Pool Boy - Fluro, Figurative art print, Pop art, David Hockney style art
By Gavin Dobson
Located in Deddington, GB
Pool boy – Fluro by Gavin Dobson [2021]
Limited Edition
CMYK screen-print
Signed by artist
Edition number 40
Image size: H:50 cm x W:35 cm
Complete Size of Un...
Category
2010s Pop Art Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Screen
Nude from Back - Original Etching by Henri Farge - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude from Back is an original modern artwork realized in the first decades of the 20th Century by the French artist Henri Farge (1884-1970).
Original et...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Hammam - Screen Print by Deanna Frosini - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Hammam is an original contemporary screen print artwork on paper realized by Deanna Frosini.
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered.
Good conditi...
Category
1980s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Salvador Dali - Old Faust - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Old Faust - from "Faust"
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 - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Nude - Woodcut by Claude Bogratchew - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Nude is a woodcut print on paper realized by Claude Bogratchew.
Hand signed on the lower right corner.
Numbered, edition of 50 prints.
Very Good condit...
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nude - Etching on Paper by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original black and white etching realized by Leo Guida.
Not signed.
The state of preservation is good. "INV.C. 31B", on the lower right margin.
Leo Guida: Artist sens...
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Reclined Nude - Etching by Valér Ferenczy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an etching and drypoint on ivory-colored paper realized by Valér Ferenczy in the 1930s.
Hand-signed by pencil on the lower right.
Good conditions with foxing and ...
Category
1930s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Reclined Nude - Etching by Emilio Greco - 1979
By Emilio Greco
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an etching realized by Emilio Greco in 1979.
Hand-signed, dated 1979, Rome.
Numbered, edition of 72/90 prints.
Good condition.
The Nude is realized through soft ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
From "Valentina" to "O" - Vintage Offset Print after Guido Crepax - 1976
By Guido Crepax
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print, from "Valentina" to "O", in a vintage poster realized in 1976 after Guido Crepax., in occasion of his exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome.
Very Good condit...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Queen of Sticks - Etching by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Queen of Sticks is an etching realized by Franco Gentilini (Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in the 1970s.
The state of preservation of the artwork is very good.
Hand-signed.
Numbered,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reclined Nude - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an original etching and aquatint in sanguine realized by Leo Guida in 1970s.
Good condition for the 8 copies of the artwork.
Mounted on a white cardboard (50x34 cm...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Phone - Mixed Media by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
"The Phone" is an original hand colored drawing on ivory-colorated paper by Mino Maccari (1898-1989).
Good condition except some tear on edges.
Sheet dimension: 35 x 50 cm.
This i...
Category
1960s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
Black and White Nudes - Etching by Mino Maccari - 1960s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 29 x 27.5 cm.
Black and White Nudes is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the second half of XX century.
Black and white etching.
Hand-signed by the...
Category
1960s Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Wim van Broekhoven "Study 1" Nude
By Wim van Broekhoven
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Study 1 by Artist Wim van Broekhoven.
A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially in the living room or hallway.
Can be framed.
Hand Signed.
Image Size: 50 x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Pastel
$1,236 Sale Price
20% Off
Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century.
Signed on the plate.
Good condit...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude - Etching on Paper - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching artwork on paper realized by an unknown artist in the XX century.
Hand signed on the lower right in pencil.
Numbered, edition 13/25.
The state of prese...
Category
20th Century Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Sleeping Sybil - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Sleeping Sybil is an original artwork realized in 1970 by the Italian Contemporary artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017).
Original etching on ivory-colored paper.
Hand-signed on the low...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude - Original Lithograph by Sergio Barletta - 1980s
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph on paper realized by Sergio Barletta.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered in pencil on the lower left, edition of 96/100 prints.
In go...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Serena - Woodcut Print by Arturo Martini - 20th Century
By Arturo Martini
Located in Roma, IT
Serena is an original woodcut realized by Arturo Martini. Title and signature printed on the lower margin.
The State of preservation is good.
The artwork is representing a woman beside a vase of flowers in a frame through intense bla...
Category
20th Century Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Talk - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1985
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Talk is an original etching and aquatint realized by Leo Guida in 1985.
Good condition.
Mounted on a white cardboard passpartout (50x35).
Dated and signed by the author.
Artist p...
Category
1980s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Female Figure with Hat - Original Lithograph by J.H. Marchand - 1920 ca.
By Jean Hippolyte Marchand
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figure with Hat is an original modern artwork realized by the French artist Jean Hippolyte Marchand in the 1920s.
Original Lithograph on ivory paper.
Passepartout included (...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Female Figure - Original Etching by Emilio Greco - 1964
By Emilio Greco
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed.
Edition of 102 copies (16/102), etching on copper.
Image dimensions: 21x25 cm.
This is one artwork collected in the portfolio "Galleria Grafica Contemporanea", publis...
Category
1960s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman with Flowers - Vintage Offset by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
Woman with Flowers is an original vintage offset print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981), in 1970s.
The state of preservation of th...
Category
1970s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
The Sibyl and the Border - Original Etching by Leo Guida - 1970
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
The Sibyl and the Border is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1970 by the italian artist Leo Guida.
Original B/W Etching on Fabriano Paper. Image Dimensions: 12.5 x 15.5 ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled from Paroles Peintes Suite - 1970s - Sebastián Matta - Aquatint/Etching
By Sebastian Matta
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled Etching from Paroles Peintes Suite is a wonderful limited edition print.
Etching with aquatint on Japon paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right; numbered on the lowe...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Cover for Vorstadt-Brodel - Lithograph - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Eugene Hamm Poster is an original print artwork on paper realized by Eugene Hamm.
Original Lithograph realized as cover of the suite "Vorstadt-Brodel", published in 1922..
Good con...
Category
1920s Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lies - From The Allegories - Original Offset by Renato Guttuso - 1981
By Renato Guttuso
Located in Roma, IT
Lies - From The Allegories is a mixed colored offset print by the Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso.
This print was realized on the occasion of the exhibition held in Rondanini Galler...
Category
1980s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Nude - Original Etching by Sergio Barletta - 20th Century
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching on cardboard realized by Sergio Barletta.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered in Roman numerals, edition of VII/ IX prints, on the lower l...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Giorgionesca - Original Etching by Emilio Greco - 1969
By Emilio Greco
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 32x24 cm.
Hand Signed and numbered.
Edition 11/60.
Provenience: Galleria Rossoni, 24/04/1969.
Ref.: Catalogue Raisonné "Emilio Greco Incisioni e Litografie", by...
Category
1960s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Girl - Etching on Cardboard by Leo Guida - 1950s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Girl is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the 1950s by Leo Guida.
Original Etching on cardboard.
Perfect conditions.
Excellent artwork on paper realized in the half of the 20th Century in Italy by the artist Leo Guida. The work depicts a nude female figure. The woman is skinny and is standing on a basement. She also has a black mantle...
Category
1950s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Soldier - Lithograph on Paper - 20th Century
By Sergio Barletta
Located in Roma, IT
Soldier is an original lithograph realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century.
In good condition, aged.
Sheet Dimension: 34.5 x 21.5 cm
The artwork represents the standing ...
Category
1970s Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman With horse - Etching by Enzo Assenza - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman With horse is an original artwork realized by Enzo Assenza.
Original print in etching technique.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the l...
Category
1970s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Fire - Original Woodcut on Paper by Erika Lawson Frimke - 1937
By Erikma Lawson Frimke
Located in Roma, IT
Fire is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 ca. by Russian artist Erika Lawson Frimke( 1878-1956), Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
The state of preservat...
Category
1930s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Icon. 2010. Paper, mixed media, 30.5x21.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Icon
2010. Paper, mixed media, 30.5x21.5 cm
Atis Ievins (1946)
The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in the time of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Marc Chagall - The 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: 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 Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
Category
1950s Modern Europe - Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph