Marc Chagall - Moses, 1956 - Lithograph
Moses, 1956
Lithograph
Edition of 500
Unsigned
Paper size: 25.25 x 16.5 inches (64.14 x 41.91 cm)
Image size: 23 x 15 inches (58.42 x 38.10 cm)
Mint condition
Printed on Arches paper. Poster created for the publication in the periodical "Verve" of an article devoted to the Bible of Marc Chagall. 500 proofs with text of which this is one impression.
Also 150 proofs without title, on Arches vellum, numbered and signed and several artists's proofs were also produced.
Published by Editions Verve Paris and Printed by Mourlot, Paris.
Dimensions :
- Height : 64.14 cm
- Width : 41.91 cm
Marc Chagall :
(1887-1985) born Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov, is a painter who was born on July the 7th in Liozna, in Bielorussia (then included in the Russian Empire), and naturalised french in 1937. He died on March 28th, 1985 in Saint-Paul de Vence. Chagall is one of the most famous foreign artists who settle in France in the XXth century, along with Pablo Picasso or Joan Miro. Even if his work is not associated to any movement or school, it bears characteristics of Surrealism and neo-primitivism. He also drew his inspiration from jewish tradition, the daily life of the shtetl (jewish village in Eastern Europe) and russian folklore, from which he elaborated his own symbolic. Chagall work with different medium, such as oil on canvas, sculpture, poetry, glass painting, enamels etc.
Additionally to the worldwide presence of his works in the biggest collections, one museum is dedicated to him in Nice, and another one in Vitebsk.
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