Marc CHAGALL - Original exhibition poster - Models for the monumental work - Mourlot - 1974

Marc CHAGALL - Affiche originale d’exposition - Maquettes pour l’oeuvre monumental - Mourlot - 1974 2

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Marc Chagall (1887-1984) Marc Chagall Models for The Monumental Work - 1974 at the National Biblical Museum in Nice Original poster for the exhibition By Charles Sorlier, based on a fragment of the model of the fourth lancet "Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise" of the stained glass windows of the north transept, west side, of Metz Cathedral Lithographic print by Mourlot Dimensions: 76 x 52 cm very good condition References: Mourlot Fernand: Chagall Lithograph, 6 Bde., Monte Carlo 1960-1986, V/CS 45 Sorlier, Charles: Posters by Marc Chagall, Paris 1975, 139 Maier-Preusker, Wolfgang: Marc Chagall - Die lithographischen Künstlerplakate und Varianten, Bonn 1995, 60

Dimensions :
- Height : 76 cm
- Width : 52 cm

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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.