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Marc Chagall [a] (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985 [b]) was a Russian and French artist. [c] An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art ...
This article lists artworks produced by Marc Chagall (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985), a painter who is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. The listing follows marcchagallart.net [1] and Harris, The Life and Works of Chagall, [2] except where noted.
Its frenetic, fanciful style [3] is credited to Chagall's childhood memories becoming, in the words of scholar H. W. Janson, a "cubist fairy tale" [7] reshaped by his imagination, without regard to natural color, size or even the laws of gravity. [3]
The Sources of Music and The Triumph of Music are two murals that Marc Chagall painted in 1966 for the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center in New York City.. Following a commission by the Metropolitan House for Chagall's set and costume design for Mozart's The Magic Flute for its inaugural season, [1] the murals were created for the lobby of the opera house, and are visible to the ...
Green Violinist is a 1923–24 painting by artist Marc Chagall that is now in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. [1] The work depicts a fiddler as the central figure who appears to be floating or dancing above the much smaller rooftops of the misty gray village below.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York acquired the painting from the artist shortly after he completed it. [1] The painting was first exhibited in New York in December 1968, and then was kept in Pierre Matisse Gallery’s collection for several years, exhibiting at some of the most important retrospectives of the artist’s work, including the definitive exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in ...
Chagall was from Vitebsk, a town that was in the Russian Empire before the First World War and since 1918 has been in Belarus. Because he was a Jew from the territory that was once in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, his cultural background was that of a Litvak. However, he never lived in the modern state of Lithuania, which was established in ...
The museum's history started in 1918. On 12 September 1918, painter Marc Chagall, then the Commissar of Arts for Vitebsk Region, went to Petrograd for getting the official approval for his idea to organize a Museum of Modern Art in Vitebsk. On 14 November 1918, a newspaper published information that the works on organization of museum of modern ...