Tumultuous, prolific, innovative - that's how critics describe Marc Chagall's best years, an era marked by world war, revolution, and the rise of Soviet Communism that pushed him into exile in France.A major exhibition of 200 works executed between 1907 and 1922, including 70 paintings, ...
But the Jewish community of Vitebsk was never far from his mind. ‘In all my paintings there is not one centimetre free from nostalgia for my native land,’ Chagall said. The work he produced in Paris blended the landmarks of the industrialised metropolis with his recollections of life back...
In the 1950s, he returned to France and continued to make his dreamlike paintings.One day, during a walk in a village, he discovered a 700-year-old church, where he saw a stained-glass(彩色玻璃) window that contained a green horse. It looked as if Chagall might have created it ...
illustrator, born in Russia, noted for his richly coloured pictures of men, animals, and objects in fantastic combinations and often suspended in space: his work includes 12 stained glass windows for a synagogue in Jerusalem (1961) and the decorations for the ceiling of the Paris Opera House ...
I would run after her to ask her how to live, how to escape from myself, from the world, whom to run to, where to go." (in ''The Circus," in Marc Chagall, Le cirque: Paintings 1969-1980, exh. cat., Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1981). 显示更多...
Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. He had two basic ...
to gradually be colored by the anguish caused by so much violence and disruption, the strength and comfort of love was more poignant than ever. Chagall recreated it in his work from the death of Bella to the end of his life, through paintings representing lovers in their shared inner world...
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Goûter au jardin 估價美元 2,800,000 – 美元 3,800,000 成交價美元 3,607,500 拍品36 B Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) Hommage à Blériot, esquisse 估價美元 1,000,000 – 美元 1,500,000 成交價美元 1,567,500 ...
Paris with his wife and daughter. Even though they are darker in nature, the paintings remain true to his style portraying floating animals and human figures in ethereal backgrounds. Certainly for this artist, as with many others, the tragedy of war acted as an impetus for a brilliant new ...
had a wish to make a 35mm color-film with painter Marc Chagall. Chagall came with the idea to portray his life by means of his paintings. Langlois started filming in 1952 and in 1954 he asked Joris Ivens to supervise and edit the already large amount of shot material. In 1958, when ...