Marc Chagall (after) - Le Dimanche - Offset lithography - ADAGP licensed print - COA

Offset lithography after Marc Chagall (*)
Reproduction of the work “Le Dimanche”, created by the artist in 1954.
Support of high-grade cotton vellum paper (250 gsm)
Signed on the plate.
Print authorized by ADAGP.

Specifications:

- Support dimensions: 85 x 65 cm
- Year: 2005
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, so it is offered in perfect condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard parcel. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx).

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Marc Chagall, the eldest of a Jewish family of nine children, was born in Vitebsk (Russia) in 1887. After finishing his secondary studies (1906), for two months he frequented Jehuda Pen’s workshop; the following year the Zvanseva school and Leon Bakst’s workshop in Saint Petersburg. In 1910 Chagall obtained a work grant from a patron that allowed him to live in Paris. He settled in La Ruche (the Hive), worked intensely, and met Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars with whom he formed friendships. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1914 the Der Stum Gallery (Berlin) organized his first solo exhibition.
At the beginning of the war he returned to Russia for several months but stayed there for several years, he married, and had his first child. The revolution broke out in 1917. He was named director of the School of Fine Arts of Vitebsk, organized teaching, inviting Pougny, El Lissitzky, Malevich. After a disagreement with the suprematist current, in 1920, Chagall resigned and settled in Moscow. The following year he began to draft “My Life”, his autobiography, and produced his first engravings, in 1922, to illustrate his work. In 1923 he returned to Paris where he met Vollard who would from then on commission numerous works. His life is filled with new encounters: Tériade, Maillol, Rouault, Vlaminck, Bonnard. The year 1926 marks his first exhibition in the United States. In 1927 Bernheim-Jeune became his agent. In 1930 Vollard commissioned a work on the Bible, a project he would not finish before 1956.
The 1930s for him are a period of numerous travels, of experimenting with anti-Semitism in Poland, of his naturalization as French (1937). The year when his paintings are pulled from the museums of Germany! The family takes refuge in Saint-Die sur Loire; later, in 1940, in Gordes. He emigrates to the United States in 1941 and the same year Matisse becomes the new intermediary for his work. He returns to Paris in 1946, distressed by the death of his wife Bella (1944). After the retrospective organized by the MOMA, in 1947, several exhibitions are held across Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Bern, Zurich). In a first phase he settles in Orgeval, spends a long stay in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat until settling permanently in Vence, where Aimé Maeght is now his agent. Chagall begins ceramics, creates mural paintings and his first sculptures.
The next 35 years will be those of frantic work (paintings, frescoes, decoration, engravings, mosaics, stained glass) that will see the artist rise to the pinnacle of recognition, with the greatest honors that can be bestowed on an artist, one of the masters of the 20th century.
In Nice, in 1973, the Museum of the Biblical Message opens.
Chagall dies in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on March 28, 1988.