Marc Chagall, Composition (Mourlot 668-677), La Ferie Et Le Royaume, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin dArches paper. Paper size: 11.75 x 8.75 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, La Ferie et Le Royaume, Lithographies Originales de Marc Chagall, 1972. Published by Fernand Mourlot diteur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frres, Paris, March 20, 1972. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), This work printed on the presses of the Imprimerie Nationale was completed on March 20, 1972, Mr. Georges Bonnin being a director. Marc Chagall's original lithographs were printed on Mourlot's presses in Paris. It was taken from this folio, 205 examples on vlin d'Arches, distributed as follows: 180 examples numbered from 1 to 180; 10 examples numbered from I to X reserves to Camille Bourniquel, and 15 non-commercial examples reserved for employees at the Imprimerie Nationale and the dpt lgal. All examples are signed by the artist and the author on the colophons.

MARC CHAGALL (1897-1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with the cole 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 prints. Chagall was born into a Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During that period, he created his own mixture and style of modern art, based on his ideas of Eastern European and Jewish folklore. He spent the wartime years in his native Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College. He later worked in and near Moscow in difficult conditions during hard times in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution, before leaving again for Paris in 1923. During World War II, he escaped occupied France to the United States, where he lived in New York City for seven years before returning to France in 1948. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz as well as the Fraumnster in Zrich, 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 Opra. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." "When Matisse dies", Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.
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