Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Request::$request is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/request.php on line 26Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Session\DB::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/session/db.php on line 15Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$getTranslations is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__construct is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__get is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__set is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: mysqli::real_escape_string(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/db/mysqli.php on line 45Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Openbay::$logger is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/openbay.php on line 22Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/framework.php:42) in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/catalog/controller/startup/session.php on line 25Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$getLanguage is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$getLanguages is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__construct is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__get is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__set is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/catalog/controller/startup/startup.php on line 95Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/framework.php:42) in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/catalog/controller/startup/startup.php on line 99Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Customer::$config is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/customer.php on line 14Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Customer::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/customer.php on line 15Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Customer::$request is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/customer.php on line 16Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Customer::$session is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/customer.php on line 17Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$getCurrencyByCode is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$getCurrencies is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__construct is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__get is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Proxy::$__set is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/engine/proxy.php on line 30Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/framework.php:42) in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/catalog/controller/startup/startup.php on line 157Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Currency::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/currency.php on line 7Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Currency::$language is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/currency.php on line 8Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Tax::$config is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/tax.php on line 7Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Tax::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/tax.php on line 8Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Weight::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/weight.php on line 7Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Weight::$config is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/weight.php on line 8Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Length::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/length.php on line 7Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Length::$config is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/length.php on line 8Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Cart::$config is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/cart.php on line 7Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Cart::$customer is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/cart.php on line 8Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Cart::$session is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/cart.php on line 9Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Cart::$db is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/cart.php on line 10Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Cart::$tax is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/cart.php on line 11Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Cart\Cart::$weight is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/cart/cart.php on line 12Unknown: Creation of dynamic property Openbay::$logger is deprecated in /home3/jbenjam1/public_html/system/library/openbay.php on line 22Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

Detail

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

Marc Zakharovich Chagall (born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal; 6 July [24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artistof the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UNand the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.

Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.

He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is".

A 1928 Chagall oil painting, Les Amoureux, measuring 117.3 x 90.5 cm, depicting Bella Rosenfeld, the artist's first wife and adopted home Paris, sold for $28.5 million (with fees) at Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2017, almost doubling Chagall's 27-year-old $14.85 million auction record.

In October 2010, his painting Bestiaire et Musique, depicting a bride and a fiddler floating in a night sky amid circus performers and animals, "was the star lot" at an auction in Hong Kong. When it sold for $4.1 million, it became the most expensive contemporary Western painting ever sold in Asia.

Menu

Category

Art styles

Manufacturers