Color lithograph, 70 x 50 cm (sheet), edition of 1979 sig.p.d.: "Chagall " (in pencil) , Piece numbered 113/300 l.d.(in pencil), Provenance : private collection Poland.
Marc Chagall - painter and printmaker of Jewish descent with Russian and French citizenship; leading representative of Cubism and Internationalism in painting. He took initial painting lessons from a local teacher Yehuda Pena. At the age of 19 he went to St. Petersburg, where he began his studies at the School of the Tsarist Society for the Propagation of Art under Nikolai Roerich, and then from 1908 to 1910 at the private school of Yelizaveta Zwanceva under Leon Bakst. His biography may resemble a fairy tale: for how else but by fairy tale magic to explain that the son of a herring seller from a small town became an icon of the artistic bohemia? Marc Chagall today is a symbol of the extraordinary, which can be seen not only in his art, but also in his biography. The painter, who practically all his life had to flee from danger, did not give up on challenges. When he loved, he caused rows, and when malicious commentators denied him his skills, he gritted his teeth and got to work. Years later, he had the house of his dreams at his fingertips.... But he gave up on seeing it. The reason is still heartbreaking today.
