Marc Chagall (after) - Amoureux au Soleil Rouge - Offset...

Offset lithography after Marc Chagall (*) Reproduction of the work “Les amoureux au soleil rouge,” created by the artist in 1952. Made on high-quality cotton vellum paper (300g). Signed on the plate. Print authorized by ADAGP. Includes certificate of authenticity (COA). Specifications: - Support dimensions: 70 x 50 cm - Year: 1992 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been matted or framed, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in perfect condition). The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be traceable with a tracking number (UPS - DPD - DHL - FedEx). The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) Marc Chagall, the eldest of a Jewish family of nine children, was born in Vitebsk (Russia) in 1887. After completing secondary studies (1906), for two months he frequented Jehuda Pen’s workshop; the following year the Zvanseva School and Leon Bakst’s workshop in Saint Petersburg. In 1910 Chagall obtained a work grant from a patron that allowed him to live in Paris. He settled in La Ruche (the Hive), worked intensely, met Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars with whom he befriended. He first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1914 the Der Stum Gallery (Berlin) organized his first solo show. At the beginning of the war he returned to Russia for several months but stayed there for several years, married, and had his first child. The revolution broke out in 1917. He was appointed director of the Higher School of Fine Arts of Vitebsk, organized teaching, inviting Pougny, El Lissitzky, Malevich. After a disagreement with the suprematist current, in 1920 Chagall resigned and settled in Moscow. The following year he began writing “My Life,” his autobiography, and his first etchings in 1922 to illustrate his work. In 1923 he returned to Paris where he met Vollard who would henceforth commission numerous works. His life was full of new encounters: Tériade, Maillol, Rouault, Vlaminck, Bonnard. The year 1926 marked his first exhibition in the United States. In 1927 Bernheim-Jeune became his agent. In 1930 Vollard commissioned him a work on the Bible, a project he would not complete until 1956. The 1930s for him were a period of numerous travels, experiments with antisemitism in Poland, and his naturalization as French (1937). The year when his paintings were pulled from German museums! The family took refuge in Saint-Die sur Loire; later, in 1940, in Gordes. He emigrated to the United States in 1941 and the same year Matisse became the new promoter of his work. He returned to Paris in 1946, distressed by the death of his wife Bella (1944). After the retrospective organized by the MOMA in 1947, several exhibitions were held across Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Bern, Zurich). In a first period he settled in Orgeval, then a long stay in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, before finally settling in Vence, where Aimé Maeght became his agent. Chagall began working with ceramics, created murals and his first sculptures. The next 35 years would be the years of frantic work (paintings, frescoes, decoration, engravings, mosaics, stained glass) that would witness the artist's rise to the pinnacle of recognition, the greatest honors that can be accorded to an artist, one of the masters of the 20th century. In Nice, in 1973, the Museum of the Biblical Message was inaugurated. Chagall died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on March 28, 1988.

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