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| c1915 Portrait of Marc Chagall by Yehuda Pen |
Marc Zakharovich Chagall ( born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov
1887 - 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An
early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and
created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book
illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art
prints.
Born in Vitebsk, Russia, of a deeply religious
Jewish family. First artistic instruction under Penn, a local painter, then
spent 1907-10 in St Petersburg, where he entered the Imperial School for the
Protection of the Fine Arts, and later studied under Bakst. Lived 1910-14 in
Paris, where he met Apollinaire, Delaunay, Leger, Modigliani and Lhote.
Somewhat influenced by Cubism, but differed from it in his love of fantasy.
He held his first one-man exhibition at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, 1914. He
returned to Russia the same year and had to remain there because of the war.
After the Revolution, he was appointed Fine Arts
Commissar for the province of Vitebsk and directed an art academy; he also executed murals for Granovsky's Jewish
Theatre in Moscow. Spent 1922-3 in Berlin, then 1923-40 in Paris, except for
visits to Egypt, Palestine, Holland, Spain, Portugal and Italy; in addition
to paintings he made illustrations for Gogol's “Dead Souls,” for La Fontaine's Fables and
the Bible. He was in the USA as a refugee 1941-47, then returned to France, settling in
1950 at Saint Paul de Vence. His later works include a new ceiling painting for the Paris
Opéra and, from 1957 a number of commissions for stained glass.
This is part 1 of a major 28-part series on the works of Marc
Chagall:
Note: All works © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York - ADAGP, Paris
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| 1906c Old Woman with a Ball of Yarn charcoal, gouache and oil on cardboard Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1907 Young Girl on a Sofa ( Mariaska ) oil on canvas 72 x 92.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1908 A House in Liozna oil on paper 37 x 49 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1908 Red Nude Sitting Up oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia |
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| 1908 Small Drawing Room oil on paper 22.5 x 29 cm Private Collection |
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| 1908 The Dead oil on canvas 28.8 x 68 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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| 1908 View from a Window. Vitebsk gouache on cardboard 49 x 36.3 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| 1908 Window, Vitebsk oil on canvas 67 x 58 cm Private Collection |
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| 1909 Circumcision oil on canvas 77.8 x 71.1 cm |
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| 1909 My Fiancée in Black Gloves oil on canvas 88 x 65.1 cm Kunstmuseum, Basel |
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| 1909 The Couple oil on canvas 91 x 103 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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| 1909 The Marriage oil on canvas 68 x 97 cm E.G. Bührle Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 1909-11c Sabbath oil on canvas 91 x 95 cm Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany |
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| 1909c Self-Portrait with Brushes oil on canvas 57 x 48 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| 1910 Ateliér oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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| 1910 Birth oil on canvas 65 x 89 cm |
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| 1910 Bridge pencil, crayon, wash, brush and ink on paper 21.7 x 16.3 cm |
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| 1910 Butcher gouache on paper 34 x 24 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
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| 1910 Nude with a Fan gouache on paper 17.3 x 30.2 cm Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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| 1910 Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Aniuta oil on canvas 92.3 x 70.3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
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| 1910 Ressurection of Lazarus gouache over graphite and pen and brown ink with touches of silver metallic pigment on paper 29.5 x 21 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1910 Still Life with Lamp oil on canvas 81 x 45 cm Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, Switzerland |
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| 1910 The Bread Merchant oil on canvas 65.4 x 75 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910 The Model oil on canvas 62 x 51.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910 Woman with a Bouquet oil on canvas 64 x 53.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1910-11 Still LIfe with Fish oil on burlap 62.9 x 50.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 Birth oil on canvas 46 x 36 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 Bride with Fan oil on canvas 45.7 x 38.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1911 Couple watercolour and gouache on paper 31.1 x 24.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1911 Daphnis and Chloe watercolour on paper 16.5 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 Death gouache on paper 24.1 x 31.1 cm Marcus Diener Collection, Basel |
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| 1911 Dedicated to my Fiancée oil on canvas 196 x 114.5 cm Kunstmuseum, Berne |
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| 1911 Half Past Three ( The Poet ) oil on canvas 197 x 146 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1911 I and the Village study watercolour and gouache 21.5 x 13.5 cm Marcus Diener Collection, Basel |
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| 1911 I and the Village oil on canvas 192.1 x 151.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1912 I and the Village pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium, Brussels © RMFAB, Brussels/Chagall |
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| 1923-24c I and the Village pencil, gouache and watercolour on paper 39 x 30 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
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| 1911 Interior II oil on canvas 100 x 180 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 Man at Table oil on canvas |
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| 1911 Nude with Cut Fruit ink and brush and watercolour 20 x 29 cm |
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| 1911 Nude with Flowers gouache on paper 33.6 c 23.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1911 Our Dining Room Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
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| 1911 Rain oil ( and charcoal? ) on canvas 86.7 x 108 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| 1911 Rain study Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
Note: This is such a big series, that I will try to post every other day.
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