Marc CHAGALL: Couple and artist in front of Saint Jeannet, 1972 - Original lithograph

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.

Beyeler Foundation (Switzerland)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
Museum of fine arts (Budapest) (Hungary)
EG Bührle Collection Foundation (Switzerland)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
Marc Chagall National Museum (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Nantes Fine Arts Museum (France)
Schaulager - Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation (Switzerland)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) (The USA)
Ceret Modern Art Museum (France)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Germany)
Nagoya City Art Museum (Japan)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
The Magnelli Museum (France)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Fukuoka Art Museum (Japan)
Kroller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
City of Chicago Public Art Collection (The USA)
Arkansas Arts Center (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museum Kiasma (Finland)
Gothenburg Art Museum (Sweden)
by Saisset Museum (The USA)
Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
The Indianapolis Museum of Art (The USA)
Tretyakov Gallery (Russia)
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France)
The Claude Dray collection (France)
The Farjam Collection (UAE)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel)
Fuji Art Museum (Japan)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (France)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Opera Garnier (France)
Grenoble Museum (France)
MIT List Visual arts Center (The USA)
ACAPA (Artothèque Angoulême) (France)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Canada)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Boca Raton Museum of art (The USA)
Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambresis (France)
The Weatherspoon Art Museum (The USA)
Israel Museum (Israel)
MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - Argentina (Argentina)
Phoenix Art Museum (The USA)
MAMAC (Contemporary Art Museum of the City of Liège) (Belgium)
Museum of Art and History of Judaism MAHJ (Paris) (France)
Stiftung Sammlung Ziegler (Germany)
Albertina (Austria)
Van Abbe Museum (Netherlands)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
Norton Museum of Art (The USA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
nufnuf-art foundation (Switzerland)
Cathedral of Metz (France)
National Gallery of Armenia (Armenia)
Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher collection (Switzerland)
National Museum of Western Art & Matsukata Collection (Japan)
Figge Art Museum (The USA)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Germany)
Fine Arts Museum of Lyon (France)
Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas (Venezuela)
Mississippi Museum of Art (The USA)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Wichita Art Museum (The USA)
Gardiner Museum (Canada)
Avampato Discovery Museum (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Haifa Museum of art (Israel)
Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery (MAGMA) (Russia)
Auckland Art Gallery (Australia)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany)
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (New Zealand)
Canton Museum of Art (The USA)
The Art Institute of Chicago (The USA)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (Japan)
Foosaner Art Museum (The USA)
Coninx Museum (Switzerland)
Holstebro Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
The Fraline | UVa Art Museum - University of Virginia (The USA)
The Russian Museum (Russia)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (Italy)
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Brauer Museum of Art - Valparaiso University (The USA)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
University of Wyoming Art Museum (The USA)
Art Gallery of Hamilton (Canada)
Cà Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna (Italy)
David Winton Bell Gallery - Brown University (The USA)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (The USA)
Belfort Museum of Modern Art (France)
Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany)
Museo Botero (Colombia)
The Palace of Fine Arts in Lille (France)
The Kreeger Museum (The USA)
Gelonch Viladegut Collection
Center for Engraving and the Printed Image (Belgium)