Marc Chagall

MARC CHAGALL, (Belarus, 1887 - France, 1985).
"The goose with the golden eggs". Series of Fontaine's fables.
Etching and aquatint on paper. Ed. 59. Edition of 100 copies.
It has numbering on the back "E-3323".
Work reproduced in Patrick Cramer, "Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books : Catalogue Raisonné".
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 29.2 x 23.5 cm (print); 41, 9 x 33.7 cm (paper).
Signed and annotated "59" of the edition of 100 copies. This work was also reproduced in an edition of 40 hand-colored copies and 45 on Japanese paper published by Tériade.
Marc Chagall was trained in St. Petersburg, where he studied from 1907 to 1910 under the tutelage of Nikolai Roerich. After this period he moved to Paris, where he reached full artistic maturity. He returned to Russia in 1914 and actively participated in the cultural renewal of the country, but his disputes with Malevich and the revolutionary demands of linking political commitment and artistic work would lead him to leave for Germany in 1924. His Jewish condition would later force him to emigrate to France and the United States, to finally settle in France at the end of the Second World War. In 1981 he received the Wolf Foundation Prize for the Arts in Jerusalem, and in 1997 a museum bearing his name was founded in Vitebsk. In all of Chagall's works during all stages of his life, it was his colors that attracted and engaged the viewer's attention. During his early years, his range was limited by his emphasis on form and his pictures never gave the impression of painted drawings.