Mark CHAGALL

Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Jewish descent, born near Vitebsk in what is now Belarus, whose work drew on Eastern European Jewish folk life, dreamlike imagery and a distinctive use of color. Though stylistically closer to Symbolism and his own idiosyncratic modernism than to Suprematism or Constructivism, he was part of the same early-twentieth-century Russian artistic milieu and briefly ran the Vitebsk art school where Malevich later taught. He spent much of his career in France, producing paintings, stained glass and prints, including the lithographic work represented in this catalog.