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Item Ships From: Switzerland
Ingres & I, Yue Minjun- Contemporary Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Ingres and I
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fighting, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese Art, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Fighting
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nocturnes à Giverny by Elger Esser, Water Lily Lake at Sunset, Contemporary Art
By Elger Esser
Located in Zug, CH
Esser’s Giverny series revisits Monet’s famous garden from an unexpected angle, whereby the common visual memory of this iconic art destination is deconstructed and recreated in an a...
Category
2010s Realist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
C Print
Swatch No - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Wang Guangyi
Located in Zug, CH
Wang Guangyi, Swatch No
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph on Velin BFK Rives 300 gr
Accompanied by poem by Fernando Arrabal
120 x 80 cm (4...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mao Zedong Waving with Black Square - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph
By Wang Guangyi
Located in Zug, CH
Wang Guangyi, Mao Zedong waving with black square
Lithograph on Velin BFK Rives 300 gr
Accompanied by poem by Fernando Arrabal
120 x 80 cm (47.2 x 31.5 in.)
Edition of 165 plus 4 AP...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
No Time - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Chinese, Chinese Culture
By Wang Guangyi
Located in Zug, CH
Wang Guangyi, No Time
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Chinese, Chinese Culture
Lithograph on Velin BFK Rives 300 gr
Accompanied by poem by Fernando Arrabal
Edition of 165 p...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wobbly, by Erwin Wurm, 2023, Flat Sculptures, Limited Editions on canvas
By Erwin Wurm
Located in Zug, CH
Erwin Wurm
Wobbly, 2023
Relief print on canvas
100 × 80 × 4.5 cm
(39.4 × 31.5 × 1.8 in)
Signed and numbered
Edition of 50
PLEASE NOTE: Images of edition number are example reference...
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas
Red Boat, Yue Minjun- Contemporary Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Red Boat
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 2021 -JR, Set 2, Print, Art, Edition
By JR artist
Located in Zug, CH
JR
Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro (Set of 2)
2021
Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond
64 × 96 cm
(25.2 × 37.8 in)
In matching edition numbers
In mint...
Category
2010s Photorealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Arcs: Uneven Angles - Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, White, Edition
By Bernar Venet
Located in Zug, CH
Bernar Venet, Arcs: Uneven Angles
Contemporary, 21st Century, Etching, Black, White, Edition
Etching (Portfolio of 4)
Edition of 50, plus 10 AP
98 x 115 cm (79.7 x 52.7 in.)
Signed a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Window - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76.5 x 57 cm
1970
Signed in pencil and numbered
Edition : /CXX
References : Field 70-8
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...
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Petite danseuse aux cheveux défaits, 1991, original lithograph by Jean Jansem
By Jean Jansem
Located in Carouge GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Petite danseuse aux cheveux défaits, 1991
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à droite
66 x 47 cm / 76 x 54 cm
Imprime...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Green Horse - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
Title: The Green Horse
1973
Dimensions: 33 x 50 cm
Reference: This lithograph was created for the portfolio "Chagall Monu...
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jeanne Marguerite Frey - Surbek (Swiss, 1886-1981) c. 1935 Etching Gabés Tunesia
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Jeanne Marguerite Frey-Surbek
(Swiss, * 23.2.1886 Delémont, † 17.5.1981 Bern)
Country Road near Gabés, Tunesia, North Africa
• Etching
• Platte, ca. 7 x 11 cm
• Sheet, ca. 33 x 25.5 cm
• Monogrammed lower right
• Edition noted lower left 74/100
• Printed title lower right
Looking through my stock, buyers will notice my liking of female artistes working in Switzerland and here I introduce you to another important heroine of Swiss artistes and present a sweet little Swiss School orientalist pre-war etching...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
Marc Chagall - Homage to Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1969
From the revue XXe Siecle, edition of 12,000
Unsigned, as issued
Dimensions: 32 x 24
Condition : Excellent
Reference: Mourlot 572
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
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Fight Before la Dame - Original Handsigned Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching
From La Quête du Graal
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Handsigned
Edition: 38/100
(from the rare deluxe suite aside from the standard edition)
Cat...
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
After Pablo Picasso - Peace Dove - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Peace Dove
1961
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
Signed and dated in the plate
Edition Succession Picasso, Paris (posthumous reproductive edition)
Editions de l...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
After Pablo Picasso - The Round of Friendship - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
FROM THE ROUND OF FRIENDSHIP
25.7.1961
Dimensions: 63.5 x 49.8 cm
Signed and dated in the plate
Color lithograph on Velin D'Arches realized from a dra...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
Signed in the plate
References : Field 67-4 (p. 3...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Merry Xmas - Original HandSigned Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Handsigned Etching by Salvador Dali
Hand-Enhanced with Gold painting
Title: Merry Christmas
Signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Dimensions: 23 x 17.5 cm
Publisher : Phyllis Lucas Gallery...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Head of Veal - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Head of Veal - 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 Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Violet Boot - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Violet Boot - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
(after) Pablo Picasso - Flying Dove with a Rainbow - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Pablo Picasso - Flying Dove with a Rainbow - Lithograph
1952
Dimensions: 28 x 38 cm
Signed and dated in the plate
Numbered in pencil
Edition : /10...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Wine Casks
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Wine Casks - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Delorme.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : Total edition of 233
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
...
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Daphnis and Chloé - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Daphnis and Chloé - Original Lithograph
From the literary review "XXe Siècle"
1960
Mourlot N°227
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G....
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Double Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - The Painter - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
Title: Painter and his Model
From the illustrated book "Regards sur Paris" (Paris: André Sauret, 1962)
Edition of 180
Individual prints were not s...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Les Songes Drolatiques - Handsigned Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Hand-Signed Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Japan Paper
Title: Pantagruel's Dreams
Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Edition: EA
1973
References : Field 73-7 (p. 1...
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Frontispiece for "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
Frontispiece for the book "Le Plafond de l'Opéra de Paris (The Ceiling of the Paris Opera)" by Jacques Lassaigne (Paris...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Red Rider - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
The Red Rider
From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle
1957
See Mourlot 191
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro.
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 Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
BOAC Speedbird Routes Across the World – Original Vintage British Airline Poster
By Harold Foster
Located in Zurich, CH
Original Vintage Airline Poster by Harold Foster. He created several designs commissioned by the British Overseas Airways Corporation ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
Salvador Dal...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Don Quixote and Sancho - Original Hand Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Rare Original Etching by Salvador Dali
Title: Don Quixote and Sancho
Signed
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Edition of 200 on Auvergne
1980
References : Field 68-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 266
Category
1980s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Nude with Raised Arms - Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Raised Arms - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 77 x 55 cm
1970
Signed in pencil and numbered
Edition : /CXX
References : Field 70-8(Page 158)
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Vision - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Vision - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Detruit.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 233 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
REFERENCES ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Girl With Torch - Original Etching on Silk
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Girl With Torch - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Henri Matisse (After) - Lithograph - Flowers
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE (1869-1954)
Lithograph after a drawing of 1941
Printed signature and date
Book plate from Aragon. Henri Matisse: Dessins, Thèmes et Variations : précédés d...
Category
1940s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Cup of Chocolate
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Cup of Chocolate - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Knight & Death, from "Faust"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - "Knight & Death" from Faust - Original Etching
With embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731)
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Pablo Picasso - La Petite Corrida - Original Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Original Lithograph
La Petite Corrida (The Small Bullfight)
1958
Edition of 2000, unsigned
Published in the journal XXe Siecle
Dimens...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sheep Herd - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Sheep Herd
Lithograph
Edition of 130
120 x 80 cm (47.2 x 31.5 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity
In mint condition, as acquired from the ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Kidnapping - Original Etching on Silk
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Kidnapping - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1968
References : Michler...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Marine Mountains - Original Lithograph
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 200
In Rives
From: COCTEAU. — VERDET (André). Montagnes marines. S. l. (Paris), Les Messagers du...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hero Here - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Hero Here
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
120 × 80 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Attack on the Windmils - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot.
SIGNATURE : printed in the image
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 64.5...
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - 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 Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born a...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Mushroom Cloud, Yue Minjun- Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Mushroom Cloud
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
120 × 80cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Woman of the Shoe - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Woman of the Shoe - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Apparition de Dulcinée - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
SIGNATURE : printed in the image
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
REFERENCES : Field 57...
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Biblia Sacra - Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Biblia Sacra was published in 1969 by Rizzoli of Rome
- SIGNATURE : printed in the image
- Edition : 1499
- SIZE : 19 x 13 3/4"
- RE...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Snatched Ecstasy (Portfolio of 20), Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Snatched Ecstasy (Portfolio of 20)
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Remarkable People, Yue Minjun- Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Remarkable People
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paean on Grassland, Yue Minjun - Art, Lithograph, Limited Edition, China, Print
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Paean on Grassland
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 x 120 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accomp...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sabat - Limoges Porcelain Blue and Gold
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Limoges porcelain in "Bleu de Sèvres" and gold.
Artist: Salvador Dali
Exclusive limited edition to 2000 copies "Raynaud & Co. Limoges", France, 1968.
"Sabat" drawn by Salvador Dalí...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Porcelain
Take the Plunge, Contemporary, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Hero Here
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
120 × 80 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Armed Forces - Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
By Yue Minjun
Located in Zug, CH
Yue Minjun, Armed Forces
Contemporary, 21st Century, Lithograph, Limited Edition, Chinese
Lithograph
Edition of 130
80 × 120 cm (31.5 × 47.2 in)
Signed and numbered, accompanied by C...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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