Collection: Marc Chagall

(Vitebsk 1887 - Saint Paul de Vence 1985)

Russian painter naturalized as French, Marc Chagall traversed all the major avant-garde movements, from Cubism to Expressionism, from Surrealism to Fauvism, without ever fully belonging to any of them. The constant in his art is the symbolic and visionary dimension, where memory, fairy tale and color merge: a personal and unmistakable world, born from the childhood spent among the fields and villages of Belarus.
Chagall was among the protagonists of the School of Paris, that extraordinary concentration of foreign artists who in the first half of the twentieth century made the French capital the center of the art world. It was in that climate of freedom and experimentation that his work reached full maturity.
Alongside painting, he produced a graphic output of great breadth and quality. His original lithographs, printed by Mourlot – the printer who worked with the greatest artists of the century – are among the highest expressions of his research: the color achieves a luminosity and lightness that seem natural, almost inevitable. At the same time, his etchings (including the famous illustrations for the Bible and for the Fables of La Fontaine) reveal a visionary mark that is also intimately narrative. In the last decades of his long life, Chagall also dedicated himself to stained glass, created for churches and cathedrals, bringing his chromatic signature into a monumental and sacred dimension.