'Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat', colour lithograph on Velin, 1952, 68 cm x 49.5 cm panel dimension, 74.5 cm x 53.5 cm inner passepartout dimension, signed, Epreuves d'artiste numbered, signed in print, dated 1949, slightly wavy, slightly browned paper, literature: WVZ. Solier VI, CS 4.
As early as around 1910-1914, Marc Chagall broke away from Impressionism, which he had learned at the St. Petersburg Academy, during his stay in Paris. In the process, he integrated stylistic features of Cubism and colourful Fauvism, which were just emerging through Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, into his painting. After returning to Russia, Marc Chagall developed his own style from elements of Russian folk art and the Jewish religious experience of his childhood. Via Berlin, the artist emigrated to Paris, where he lived and worked from 1920 onwards. Chagall's work is characterised by a colourful combination of symbolic pictorial motifs. In addition to paintings, he produced an extensive graphic oeuvre and designed stained glass windows as well as ceramics and sculpture. From 1950 onwards, the artist lived in Vence, which is only about 30 kilometres from the municipality of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Côte d'Azur via Nice and which is the title of this colour lithograph.
