Marc CHAGALL (after) - Study for the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier - Lithograph
Study for the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier
Lithograph signed in the plate
Hand numbered out of 3000 copies
Paper dimensions 50.5 cm x 50.5 cm
Dimensions goes everywhere 60 cm x 60 cm
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) (after)
The Opera Garnier
Lithograph on vellum
Setting on stone by Sorlier after a gouache by Chagall
Signed in the plate
Printed in the Atelier Mourlot
This lithograph was created for the portfolio celebrating the realization of the ceiling of the Paris Opera by Marc Chagall in 1962.
This brightly colored lithograph perfectly illustrates Chagall's joyous vision of opera.
Dimensions :
- Height : 60 cm
- Width : 60 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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