Marc CHAGALL (Belaruss 1887 - 1937 France) - The Painter and his Double, colour lithograph
The Painter and his Double
Colour lithograph
38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 inches)
This colored lithograph in limited edition comes from the magazine "Derrière le Miroir" the legendary art magazine published in Paris by Aimé Maeght, from 1946 to 1982. Some of the artists who created lithographs for the magazine were Chagall, Miro, Braque, Giacometti, Kelly, Tapies, Riopelle, Pol Bury, Calder, Alechinsky, Ubac and Palazuelo.
Editions in circulation of Derrière le Miroir are now scarce and have become very valuable and much appreciated - especially lithographs by Chagall. In this work, characterized by the light blue color of the sky and its lightness, is a poetic summa of the main subjects of the painter.
Reference catalogue "Marc Chagall, the illustrated books," Patrick Cramer Publisher, Geneva 1995, pg. 325, number Mourlot 992.
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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