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Item Ships From: Switzerland
"Présence" Collection - N°17 by Gilbert Pauli - Acrylic on Canvas
By Gilbert Pauli
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Abstract composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

20th Century Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Bouquet of tulips
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

1940s Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

"Présence" Collection - N°15 by Gilbert Pauli - Acrylic on Canvas 45x70 cm
By Gilbert Pauli
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Juger" by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on burlap 68x98 cm
By Gilbert Pauli
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Burlap, Oil

"Fêter" by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on burlap 68x98 cm
By Gilbert Pauli
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Burlap, Oil

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. Unsigned edition of over 5,000 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. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...
Category

1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Portrait of Ursula Stauffacher at the Red Book
By Alexandre Blanchet
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 103.5 x 93 x 7 cm
Category

1940s Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

022 o.T., 2017 (Abstract painting)
By Daniel Göttin
Located in London, GB
022 o.T., 2017 (Abstract painting) Acrylic, adhesive tape on paper - Unframed. Daniel Gottin's interest and concept are to examine the subjective nature of perception, and playfull...
Category

2010s Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Paper, Tape, Acrylic

Young blonde woman posing in profile
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 51 x 43.5 x 4 cm
Category

1940s Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Landscape by Edouard Arthur - Oil on wood 33x25 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on wood sold with frame Total size with frame 50x43 cm
Category

1980s Impressionist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Carousel of nudes
Located in Geneva, CH
The work is signed and dated but artist unknown from the gallery The work is framed. White wooden frame with glass, total size 82x62 cm
Category

1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Ink

Carousel of nudes
Carousel of nudes
$480 Sale Price
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Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - from "Derrière le miroir"
By Alexander Calder
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Alexander Calder - Original Lithograph - from "Derriere le Miroir"Behind the Mirror 1976 Condition: Good Condition Dimensions: 38 x 56 cm Source: Derrière le miroir (DLM), n°141, 1...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Switzerland - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bouquet and book
By Alexandre Rochat
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas This work of art, a still life depicting a vase of flowers, stands out for its mastery of the material and its subtly blended color palette. At the center of the comp...
Category

Mid-20th Century Expressionist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Will blow away tomorrow – Brigitte Lustenberger, Flower, Still Life, Art, Flora
By Brigitte Lustenberger
Located in Zurich, CH
Brigitte LUSTENBERGER (*1969, Switzerland) Will blow away tomorrow, 2020 From the series 'An Apparition Of Memory' C-print 100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 i...
Category

2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Art

Materials

C Print

Backseat
Located in Zurich, CH
Balthasar BURKHARD (1944–2010, Switzerland) Backseat, 1977 Silver gelatin print on Baryta paper, artist's wooden frame Sheet 108 x 132 cm (42 1/2 x 52 in.) From an edition of 5 A Gal...
Category

1970s Contemporary Switzerland - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Return Of The Light Forces. Oil painting, large format, figurative, angels.
Located in Oslo, NO
This painting is the most important in the series “The Return of the Forces of Light”. We see a shining army returning with all its might to our world after a long absence, carrying ...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Countryside villa (1949) - Oil on canvas 49x64 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work signed but artist unknown from the gallery- Sold with frame, total size with frame is 82x67 cm
Category

1940s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Young boy with carafe by Heinrich Rettig - Watercolor on paper 60x76 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Watercolor on paper sold with frame Total size with frame 73x89 cm Heinrich RETTIG is an artist born in Germany in 1859 and died in 1921. His works have been sold at public auction ...
Category

Early 20th Century Academic Switzerland - Art

Materials

Watercolor

Bouquet of sunflowers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper mounted on cardboard Brown wooden frame 93.5 x 71 x 3.5 cm
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Gouache

Untitled
Located in Zurich, CH
Balthasar BURKHARD (1944–2010, Switzerland) Untitled, 1989 Silver gelatin print 40 x 50 cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.) Edition of 5 Balthasar Burkhard was born on December 24th 1944 in Be...
Category

1980s Contemporary Switzerland - Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

View of a park
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

Mid-20th Century Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Animated alpine landscape with characters
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 39.5 x 57.5 x 3 cm
Category

19th Century French School Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Natale in Sicilia
By Giulio D'Angelo
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Beige wooden frame 50 x 53 x 3.5 cm
Category

1940s Italian School Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Festivities in the old town in Geneva
By René Guinand
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 70 x 61 x 4 cm This captivating work, painted with undeniable mastery, presents a lively urban scene seen from above. The pain...
Category

Early 20th Century Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Small chapel
By Armand Marie Guerin
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category

Early 20th Century French School Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Salvador Dali - Sator from "Faust"
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator, from "Faust" Original Etching Embossed signature From the edition of 731 Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm 1969 References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305 Salvador Dali Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press. Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him. In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness. By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo-realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael. Salvador Dali and Gala. Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard. Gala decided to stay with Dali. She became his companion, his muse, his sexual partner, his model in numerous art works and his business manager. For him she was everything. Most of all Gala was a stabilizing factor in his life. And she managed his success in the 1930s with exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Gala was legally divorced from her husband in 1932. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony...
Category

1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Etching

View of a Port
By Emile Compard
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Dimensions with frame 65.5 x 88.5 x 3 cm This artistic work reveals a panoramic view of a port city, captured with an impressive mastery of the pictorial technique. Th...
Category

1950s Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Reina Mariana II (Las Meninas), 2022, Valdés, porcelain sculptures
By Manolo Valdés
Located in Zug, CH
Manolo Valdes Reina Mariana II (Las Meninas), 2022 Limoges Porcelain 35 × 23.5 × 17.8 cm (13.8 × 9.3 × 7 in) Edition of 199 In mint condition Images of edition number are example re...
Category

2010s Switzerland - Art

Materials

Porcelain

Sketch of man in suit by Otto Vautier - Drawing on paper 12x20 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Stamp of the workshop of O. Vautier Dimension of the passe-partout framing 52.5 x 38 cm Otto Vautier is a renowned Swiss painter, born in 1...
Category

Early 19th Century Academic Switzerland - Art

Materials

Crayon

Young woman and cupid
By Henri Fehr
Located in Genève, GE
Work on tracing paper Workshop stamp on the back of the work Green mat size : 39 x 31 x 0.3 cm
Category

20th Century Switzerland - Art

Materials

Crayon

Savannah
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Acrylic

René Zwahlen "Place petit Saconnex" - oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
René Zwahlen comes from a family of artists and is a 20th century artist from Geneva (Switzerland). His work is neat and realistic, the work is in perfect condition. The work is sold...
Category

Late 20th Century Realist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Drawing 44x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper Ed: 1 /100
Category

Early 20th Century Academic Switzerland - Art

Materials

Crayon, Engraving

Collage cuir de serpent by Gilbert Albert - 20x15 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Composition / faux leather piece collage Total size with frame is 25x30 cm Gilbert Albert is a famous Geneva jeweler, who during his career had fun with sculpture and some mixed me...
Category

2010s Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Leather

Front Garden With Pink Flowers. Flowers, horizontal, oil painting
Located in Oslo, NO
"This painting is a memory of the beautiful flower beds of Los Angeles blooming before the fire." said Anna Shesterikova about this painting. "I have seen them when I visited LA in M...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ballad by Olga Reiwald - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper White wooden frame with glass pane 53 x 43,5 x 1 cm
Category

1970s Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Watercolor

Sanary by André-Louis Lambert - Watercolor on paper 27x39 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Category

1950s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Watercolor, Color Pencil

In full swing by John Torcapel - Gouache on paper 24x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Gouache

Edge of the Rhone by Roger Delapierre - Oil on canvas 27x35 cm
By Roger Delapierre
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 44x53 cm Roger DELAPIERRE is a Genevan artist born in 1935 and died in 2021. His works have been sold at public auction 251 time...
Category

1980s Realist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Corse by Stefano - Oil on canvas 40x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Stefano est un artiste peintre Genevois contemporain qui s'amuse entre l'abstrait et un figuratif suggéré. Cette pièce représente pour l'artiste "Corse". Elle a été peinte en 2023 et fait partie des dernières productions de l'artiste. Ce sont des études pour de...
Category

2010s Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a man with a chechia
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature Work on canvas
Category

19th Century Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Peace flags n°7 by Gilbert Pauli - Acryl on paper 36x45 cm
By Gilbert Pauli
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Return from the hunt for the blue vase
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 92.3 x 60.5 x 2.5 cm
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Salvador Dali - Corrida - Vintage Poster with Etching
By Salvador Dalí­
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Corrida - Vintage Poster with Etching Etching made behind a menu in Restautant Duran as a tribute dinner to Salvador Dali and his wife Ga...
Category

1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Etching

Cart and barrel in the barn
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 80 x 69 x 5 cm
Category

1930s Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Swiss Valley
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category

1940s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Gouache

Swiss Valley
Swiss Valley
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By the river
By Paul Mathey
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Dimensions with frame : 45 x 55 x 4 cm This work, a captivating impressionist painting, features a serene and enchanting natural landscape. Bol...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Geneva landscape at 18°
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas mounted on panel View of Geneva from the 18th century painter late 19th or early 20th Golden wooden frame 40 x 47 x 3.5 cm
Category

Late 19th Century Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Landscape by M. Terraz - Oil on cardboard
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Spring in Bernex
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Tulips - Large Scale Contemporary Floral Color Photograph
By Pia Clodi
Located in Zürich, CH
Dry Tulips - 21st Century Photographic Floral Print, PolaroidOriginal, Shadow Gapped Frame - Photographic Print on Aluminium Dibond - Edition 10 + 1, with Certificate Dry Tulips is ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Switzerland - Art

Materials

Carbon Pigment, Polaroid

Enlacer by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 130x97 cm
By Gilbert Pauli
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas with plaster and cement
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

View of the lake in winter
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Dimensions with frame : 57.5 x 74 x 5 cm This striking work captures a serene landscape, shrouded in a subdued light that evokes a meditative mood. Dominated by gray a...
Category

1920s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Still life in the kitchen
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category

1960s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Abstract composition 2 by Yvan Moscatelli - Oil paint on wood 90x110 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood 110x90 cm, don't need frame. Yvan MOCATELLI is an artist born in Italy in 1944. His works have been sold at public auction 15 times, mostly in the Painting category. Be...
Category

1990s Abstract Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Marc Chagall - Moses with Tablets of Stone - 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...
Category

1950s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still life by Johan Taylor - Oil on canvas 33x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame (golden leaf) Total size with frame is 47x69 cm Johan Taylor is a Swiss artist born in the 20th century.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

The Pont Royal and the Louvre by Pierre Charles Hébert - Oil on canvas 33x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas Gilded wooden frame 42 x 49,5 x 5 cm
Category

1920s Modern Switzerland - Art

Materials

Oil

Glacier by Rudolf Reschreiter - Gouache on paper 35x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Gouache work on paper New natural wooden Frame Total size with frame is 52,5 x 67,5 cm
Category

Early 1900s Realist Switzerland - Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

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