Marc Chagall

          Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Russia. From 1907 to 1910 he studied in Saint Petersburg, at the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts, and later with Léon Bakst. In 1910 he moved to Paris, where he associated with Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and encountered Fauvism and Cubism. He participated in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne in 1912. His first solo show was held in 1914 at Der Sturm gallery in Berlin.

          Chagall visited Russia in 1914 and was prevented from returning to Paris by the outbreak of war. He settled in Vitebsk, where he was appointed Commissar for Art in 1918. He founded the Vitebsk Popular Art School and directed it until disagreements with the Suprematists resulted in his resignation in 1920. He moved to Moscow and executed his first stage designs for the State Jewish Chamber Theater there. After a sojourn in Berlin, Chagall returned to Paris in 1923 and met Ambroise Vollard. His first retrospective took place in 1924 at the Galerie Barbazanges-Hodebert, Paris. During the 1930s he traveled to Palestine, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, and Italy. In 1933 the Kunsthalle Basel held a major retrospective of his work.

          During World War II Chagall fled to the United States. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gave him a retrospective in 1946. He settled permanently in France in 1948 and exhibited in Paris, Amsterdam, and London. In 1951 he visited Israel and executed his first sculptures. The following year the artist traveled in Greece and Italy. During the 1960s Chagall continued to travel widely, often in association with large-scale commissions he received. Among these were windows for the synagogue of the Hadassah University Medical Center, Jerusalem (installed in 1962); a ceiling for the Paris Opéra (installed in 1964); a window for the United Nations building, New York (installed in 1964); murals for the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (installed in 1967); and windows for the cathedral in Metz, France (installed in 1968). An exhibition of the artist’s work from 1967 to 1977 was held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, in 1977–78, and a major retrospective was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1985. Chagall died on March 28, 1985, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

    

     Ahasuerus Sends Vasthi Away

             17 by 13 inches,  Year"1960"

             Edition 50 Pcs.  

              Hand Signed Lithograph

        Publisher "Verve"  Mourlot 251

       $11,000

      

Bonjour Paris

28 by 22 inches, Year 1972

Edition 5 Pcs.

    Hand Signed Lithograph

Publisher Mourlot M-CS43

$22,000

                              

 

Daphnist and Chloe Suite

Cover Piece with original drawing and dedication.

1970 done in Paris by Artist

Hand done drawing on paper

POR

 

Deborah the Prophetess

          12 by 9 inches,   Year  "1984 "

                                                             Limited Edition 52/100

 Etching

  POR

 

    

      Bouquet with a Blue Sky

          21 by 17 inches,   Year  "1984 "

                                                             Edition 50 Pcs.

 Hand Signed Lithograph

  Publisher Mourlot # 1024

  $15,000

      

      Country Idyll

         22 by 15 inches, Year "1972"

          Edition 50 Pcs.

        Hand Signed Lithograph

        Publisher Mourlot #680

           $15,000

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