Marc Chagall, Tribe Of Gad, Jerusalem Windows, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows, 1962. Published by Andr Sauret, diteur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frres, Paris, June 7, 1962. Excerpted from the album, This album, which was compiled by Andr Sauret, was completed on June 7, 1962. The texts by Jean Leymarie, were composed by hand in "Romain du roi" and were printed by The Imprimerie Nationale de France. The thirty-six preparatory color designs, some of which are in twenty colors, were transferred to the stones by Charles Sorlier under the direction of Marc Chagall. These designs and the two original lithographs by Marc Chagall, were printed by Mourlot Frres. The other reproductions and the binding are by Draeger Frres. The end-papers (photo Izis) show a view of the mountains of Judala taken from the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. The photographs of the windows and the details in color are by S. Roussel; Those of the sketches and the drawings are by Simone Cuiley-Lagache.

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. In November 2017, Chagalls painting, Les Amoureux, sold for $28.5 million USD at Sotheby's New York, which set the world record for the artist.
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