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Sylvie Forestier




Chagall
and artworks
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ISBN: 978-1-78160-935-4
Contents
BIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A
A Soldier and a Girl
Apollinaire
Apparition of the Artist’s Family
Around Her
Artist at Easel
B
Barbershop
Bella with a White Collar
Birth of a Child
Birthday
By the Window at Night
C
Champ de Mars
Chemist’s Shop in Vitebsk
Concert in Blue
Confidence at Circus
Costume Design for Nikolai Gogol’s “The Inspector General”
D
Dedicated to My Fiancée
Double Portrait with a Wineglass
F
Father
G
Golgotha
H
Hommage à Apollinaire
House in the Village of Liozno
I
I and the Village
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
Interior with Flowers
J
Jew Holding the Torah
Jew in Green
Jew in Prayer
Jew in Red
Jewish Wedding
K
Kermis
King David
L
Lilies of the Valley
Lovers
Lovers in Blue
Lovers in Green
Lovers in Grey
Lovers in Pink
M
Madonna of the Village
Man with a Cat and Woman with a Child
Maternity (Pregnant Woman)
My Fiancée in Black Gloves
O
Old Man and Old Woman
On the Road
Over the Town
Over Vitebsk
P
Paris Through the Window
Peace to Cottages, War on Palaces
Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Mariassinka
Promenade
R
Russian Village Under the Moon
S
Sabbath
Le Saoul (The Drinker)
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait at the Easel
Self-Portrait with Muse (The Apparition)
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
Self-Portrait with White Collar
Soldiers
Soldiers with Bread
Soukkot (Rabbi with a Lemon)
Still-Life with Lamp
Street in the Village
Street in Vitebsk
Study for “The Rain”
T
The Acrobat
The Artist’s Sister (Mania)
The Baby’s Bath
The Blue House
The Butcher
The Cattle Dealer
The Cemetery Gates
The Circus
The Circus Rider
The Clock
The Cock
The Cock in Love
The Dacha
The Fiddler
The Green Violonist
The Grey House
The House in the Suburbs
The Juggler
The Mirror
The Newspaper Vendor
The Old Jew
The Poet (Half Past Three)
The Poet Reclining
The Promenade
The Red Houses
The Revolution
The Sky of Paris
The Soldier Drinks
The Street Sweeper (Janitor with Birds)
The Street Sweeper
The Triumph of Music
The Violonist
The Vitebsk Preacher
The Wall of Lamentations
The Wedding
The Wedding
The Yellow Room
Time is a River without Banks
To My Wife
To Russia, Asses and Others
V
View from the Window, Vitebsk
Village Scene in Vitebsk
W
Wall Clock with a Blue Wing
Wedding at the Eiffel Tower
Window at the Dacha, Zaolshye near Vitebsk
Window Overlooking the Garden
Wounded Soldier
“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”
– Marc Chagall
Self-Portrait
1909. Oil on canvas, 57 x 48 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldort
Biography
7 July 1887
Marc Zakharovich Chagall, the son of a fish vendor, was born in Vitebsk.
1906
Studied at the art school of Yuri Pen in Vitebsk, leaving for St. Petersburg in the winter.
1907-1910
Studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, St. Petersburg (then directed by Nicholas Roerich) and the private school of S. Saidenberg; entered the private art school of Yelizaveta Zvantseva, where he studied under Léon Bakst and Matislav Dobuzhinsky. Showed his works at the school exhibition held in the office of the magazine Apollon.
1910-1914
Lived in Paris, on the Impasse du Maine. In 1911, moved to La Ruche. Met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Amedeo Modigliani, Alexander Arkhipenko, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, and other famous artists and writers. Exhibited at the Salon des Independants and the Salon d’Automne in Paris, with the Donkey’s Tail group in Moscow, at Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin (first one-man show) and also in St.