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Product description
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
Title of work of art: La Tour Eiffel Verte
Technique: Lithography
Signature: Unsigned
Year: 1957
Condition: In excellent condition, professionally framed.
Image Dimensions: 23 x 20 cm
Dimensions frame: 49.5 x 39.5 cm
Framed in authentic luxury wooden frame. Red and gold mixed with black sides.
The frame is 2 cm high and 2 cm wide.
Provenance: Beautiful lithograph by Marc Chagall. This lithograph is from the book 'Chagall' by Jacques Lassaigne, first edition from 1957 (see photo).
In 1957, on the occasion of Chagall's 70th birthday, a book written by Jacques Lassaigne was published.
For this book, Chagall made 15 lithographs, 5 of which were printed on a double page. These therefore have a fold in the middle. The edition of the book and therefore of the lithographs was 6,000. The back of the lithograph is unprinted.
Comes from private collection purchased through auction house Koorendijk of Middelburg.
Work credit: Mourlot 201 from Paris.
Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist who produced paintings, stained glass windows, ceramics, book illustrations, tapestries, prints.
Although he was influenced by different styles, cubism, expressionism, symbolism, fauvism and surrealism, he always painted in his own way.
Chagall was considered the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists. For decades, he was also respected as the world's leading Jewish artist. In 1906, Chagall took drawing and painting lessons from Russian portrait artist Yehuda Pen. That same year, Chagall moved to St. Petersburg to continue his studies at the Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting, where he was briefly apprenticed to artist and set designer Leon Bakst. Bakst, himself a devout Jew, is said to have encouraged Chagall to introduce Jewish imagery and themes into his work, a practice that was unpopular at the time.
In 1910, Chagall arrived in Paris, where Cubism emerged as the leading movement. In Paris, he exhibited in the Salon des Indépendants and in the Salon d'Automne. During this period, he created art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. In 1914 he had his first so show at Der Sturm in Berlin.
In 1915 he married Bella Rosenfeld, after which they moved to Petersburg. He spent the war years in Soviet Belarus and became one of the country's leading artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde. He founded the Vitebsk Arts College before moving back to Paris in 1922. Bella died in 1944 and Chagall remarried to Valentina Brodsky in 1952. From 1957, Chagall came regularly to Reims, where he worked with the Jacques Simon Workshop on a number of important projects in France and internationally: stained glass windows for Metz Cathedral (1968), the United Nations in New York (1964), Reims Cathedral (1974). In 1962, stained glass windows were installed in the synagogue of the Medical Center of Hadassah-Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also painted widely, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra (1964).
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsGreen, Creme, BlackMaterialWood, Paper, GlassNumber of items1StyleAbstractArtistsMarc ChagallOrientationLandscapeArt sizeSmallHeight40 cmWidth49 cm