Marc CHAGALL - Signed and dedicated drawing
Face, 1959
Original drawing in red ink and gouache signed, dedicated and dated (1959) on the cover page of the "Marc Chagall" catalog organized by UNESCO in Hamburg, Munich and Paris.
Size: 21 × 16 cm
Volume in-8 ° of 278 pages illustrated with the works of the painter in black and white, hardcover.
Dedication: "for Miss Timmermann in good memory Marc Chagall 1959"
Provenance: original owner offered by the artist to Miss Timmermann
Good condition
Dimensions :
- Height : 21 cm
- Width : 16 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.
