AFTER MARC CHAGALL (Peskowatik bei Witebsk 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence) Bonjour Paris, 1939

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  AFTER MARC CHAGALL*
  (Peskowatik bei Witebsk 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence)
  Bonjour Paris, 1939
  color lithography/paper, 62,8 x 47,2 cm
  signed in stone Marc Chagall and labelled Marc Chagall "Bonjour Paris" 1938 - Ch. Sorlier Grav. Lith., from the Edition Euro Art
  Provenance: private property Vienna
  
  ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 500
  
  French-Russian painter of Jewish origin of the 20th century. Part of the Parisian avant-garde, representative of Expressionism and painter-poet. From 1906 student of the Jewish-Lithuanian painter Jedua Pen, a representative of the Jewish Renaissance in Belarusian art. From 1907 studied in St. Petersburg in the school of the Imperial Society for the Promotion of the Arts directed by Nicholas Roerich, and for a short time also at the private school Saidenberg. From 1908 to 1910 studies at the school of Léon Bakst with Yelizaveta Zvantseva. From 1910 with scholarship of his patron Maxim Winawer in Paris, already own studio near the Gare Montparnasse. In 1912 he moved into a studio in the artists' settlement founded by Alfred Boucher, cultivated contacts Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Robert Delaunay, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Amedeo Modigliani. Visited the Louvre, impressed by Fauvism and Cubism studied the works of Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Took part in the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne himself. From 1913 through Herwarth Walden also exhibitions in Galerie Sturm in Berlin, then also contact with Paul Cassirer. 1919 founded the Vitebsk Art School, with representatives of the Russian avant-garde such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Ivan Albertovich Puni and Dawid Jakerson as teachers. Emigrated to the USA in 1941, there contact with Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian and André Masson. 1948 return to France. Themes of his representations come from the Bible, circus and theater worlds and his love for Paris. Dreamlike and symbolic representations, floating lovers with recurring symbols such as the Eiffel Tower as a symbol of heaven and freedom and the rooster as a symbol of fertility.
  
  
  
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