Marc Chagall

MARC CHAGALL (Belarus, 1887 - France, 1985).
Untitled, 1975-1976:
Etching on book page.
Measurements: 30 x 39 cm (print); 36 x 47 cm (paper).

Marc Chagall was formed in Saint Petersburg, city in which he studied between 1907 and 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, finally settling in France at the end of World War II. 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. He is currently represented in the Guggenheim, MoMA and Metropolitan museums in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Fukoka Art Museum in Japan, the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Albertina in Vienna and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, among many other public and private institutions around the world.