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Marc Chagall
"Holding a copper plate or a stone for lithographs I felt in possession of a Talisman."
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"Coup de coeur" by Marc Chagall
« Paravent » - Septembre 2020
Très grande lithographie originale à grandes marges sur deux feuilles, 1963.
En octobre 1958, lors d’une visite chez Gérald et Ynès Cramer à Mies, au bord du lac Léman, Marc Chagall côtoie durant plusieurs jours le merveilleux paravent de Bonnard « Promenade des nourrices, frise de fiacres » présent dans leur demeure. Cette œuvre de la période Nabis le marque suffisamment pour qu’il envisage de créer son propre paravent. Il lui faudra environ cinq ans pour le concevoir, prenant en compte toutes les étapes de sa réalisation jusqu’à la boîte qui le contiendra : « Et il y avait la boîte, ça glisse, sans difficultés malgré son poids, dans une boîte qui est extraordinaire ». Après de longs mois de recherches, deux grandes plaques de zinc accueillent les compositions, qui sont imprimées en douze couleurs sur deux grandes feuilles dans un atelier parisien, rue Nollet. Celles-ci seront ensuite découpées et montées sur les quatre panneaux du paravent. Nous présentons ici deux épreuves d’imprimeur, aux couleurs exceptionnellement fraîches. La fenêtre avec la Tour Eiffel, le divan, le couple d’amoureux, le village de Saint-Paul de Vence, le bouquet, la nature morte, chaque motif constitue un tableau à lui seul. L’intérieur et l’extérieur se mêlent, en apesanteur, dans une lumière radieuse et enveloppante. La ligne douce et vibrante, soulignée de couleurs tendres, témoigne d’un bonheur serein. Celui d’un grand peintre, qui dans la quiétude de son atelier, poursuit son œuvre avec la vigueur d’un jeune homme, porté par un enthousiasme chaque jour renouvelé.
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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A tribute to Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall est mort à Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Alpes-Maritimes, France) le 28 mars 1988. Il repose, sous l’azur du ciel, dans le joli petit cimetière de ce village médiéval perché sur une colline dont les pentes serpentent jusqu’à la mer. Selon la tradition, de petits cailloux sont posés sur sa tombe . . . . Nous avons choisi le coquelicot car, la saison venue, son rouge fleurit près de lui.
"La terre qui avait nourri les racines de mon art était Vitebsk mais mon art avait besoin de Paris comme un arbre a besoin d’eau." - Marc Chagall
"La Ruche / Escaliers, portes, escaliers / Et sa porte s’ouvre comme un journal / . . . . / Chagall / Chagall / Dans les échelles de la lumière." - Blaise Cendrars
". . . . / Tandis que tes cheveux sont comme le trolley / A travers l’Europe vêtue de petits feux multicolores." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"Avec lui seul, la métaphore marque son entrée triomphante dans la peinture moderne" - André Breton
"Chagall ? Ivre d’images" - André Malraux
"Si toute vie va inévitablement vers sa fin, nous devons durant la nôtre, la colorier avec nos couleurs d'amour et d'espoir." - Marc Chagall
Notes of biography
Marc Chagall is born in 1887 to Vitebsk (Russia), elder of a Jewish family of 9 children.
At the end of his secondary studies (1906), he went to the Jehuda Pen‘s Atelier for 2 months.
Next year, he went to the Zvanseva School, then the Leon Bakst atelier in St Petersbourg.
In 1910, he got a working scholarship from a patron which allowed him to join Paris.
In 1911, he settled down in La Ruche, worked a lot, met Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, Max Jacob, and Blaise Cendrars with who he had his first exhibition at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1914, his first personal exhibition is organized in Berlin with La Galerie der Sturm.
He came back in Russia at first for few months, stayed finally several years, got married there, had a first child. In 1917 the revolution is here, he became president of the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Vitebsk and shared the Education thought by Pougny, El Lissitzky, and Malevitch.
In 1920, after he got angry with the Malevitch theory and his followers, he left and settled down in Moscow. The next year he started writing his autobiography “My Life” and created his first etchings to illustrate his book in 1922. A year after, he went back to Paris, met Vollard who will order him a lot of work. Since that time, his life is marked out by new meetings: Tériade, Maillol, Rouault, Vlaminck, and Bonnard. In 1926, he made his first exhibition in the United States. In 1927, Bernheim-Jeune became his seller. In 1930, Vollard ordered him a work on The Bible, which will be finished only in 1956.
The 30s is marked by numerous journeys, by the ascent of the anti-Semitism which he felt in Poland, by the French nationality he got in 1937, year when his paintings are taken down of walls in the German museums! The family took refuge in the Saint-Dié / Loire, and then settled down to Gordes in 1940. The next year, the artist left for the United States and accepted Pierre Matisse as his new seller. He came back to Paris in 1946, still full of his sorrow to have lost Bella, his wife (1944). After the MOMA organized him a retrospective, there was a series of exhibitions dedicated to him through Europe in 1947 (Paris, Amsterdam, Bern, and Zurich). He settled down at first to Orgeval, will stay for a long time at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, then lived in 1950, in Vence where he had a new seller: Aimé Maeght. Chagall learnt about the ceramic, realized murals paintings and his first sculptures.
During the next 35 years he produced a huge work (paintings, frescoes, decorations, etchings, mosaics, stained glasses, etc.) and received so many compliments and was respected as one of the most important artist of the XX ° century.
The museum Message Biblique is inaugurated in Nice, in 1973.
Chagall died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on March 28th, 1988.
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« Chagall lithographe », 6 Vol., J. Cain, F. Mourlot, C. Sorlier, Ed. André Sauret, 1960-1986
*« Monotypes 1961-1965 & 1966-1975 », 2 Vol., J. Leymarie, G. Cramer, Ed. G. Cramer, Genève, 1966 & 1976
*« Chagall, l’oeuvre gravé 1922-1966 », Vol. I, E. Kornfeld, Ed. Kornfeld & Klipstein, Berne, 1971
*« Les affiches de Marc Chagall », C. Sorlier, Ed. Draeger-Vilo, 1975
*« M. Chagall & A. Vollard », C. Sorlier, Ed. Galerie Matignon, 1981
*« Im Spiegel Seiner Plakate, 1950-83 », Ed. Art-C.C., Circa 1985
*« M. Chagall, les livres illustrés », P. Cramer, Ed. Patrick Cramer, Genève, 1995
*« Chagall - Derrière le Miroir », Ed. Maeght, 1997
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Chagall, l’oeuvre gravé », Bibliothèque Nationale, 1970
- « Marc Chagall », W. Haftmann, Cercle d’Art, 1975
- « Chagall », F. Le Targat, Albin Michel, 1985
- « Marc Chagall », F. Meyer, Flammarion, 1995
- « Message biblique - Marc Chagall », collectif, Ed. R.M.N., Paris, 2000
- « Chagall, de la palette au métier », Olivier Le Bihan, Ed. Snoeck, 2014
- « Chagall et la musique », Ambre Gauthier et autres, ed. Gallimard, Paris, 2015
- « De la poésie à la peinture », J.-L. Prat, Ed. Fonds H. et E. Leclerc, 2016
- « Les vitraux de Chagall », collectif, ed. Citadelles & Mazenod, 2016
- « Chagall sculptures », collectif, Ed. R.M.N., Paris, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Ma vie », Stock, 1931, rééd. 2003
- « Mon univers - Autobiographie », Fides Ed., 2017
Website :
www.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.frMore :
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Stamp by Marc Chagall
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
+ Autograph
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Michelle Champetier Collection / This document is not for sale
+ Listen
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Marc Chagall
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Marc Chagall est mort à Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Alpes-Maritimes, France) le 28 mars 1988. Il repose, sous l’azur du ciel, dans le joli petit cimetière de ce village médiéval perché sur une colline dont les pentes serpentent jusqu’à la mer. Selon la tradition, de petits cailloux sont posés sur sa tombe . . . . Nous avons choisi le coquelicot car, la saison venue, son rouge fleurit près de lui.
"La terre qui avait nourri les racines de mon art était Vitebsk mais mon art avait besoin de Paris comme un arbre a besoin d’eau." - Marc Chagall
"La Ruche / Escaliers, portes, escaliers / Et sa porte s’ouvre comme un journal / . . . . / Chagall / Chagall / Dans les échelles de la lumière." - Blaise Cendrars
". . . . / Tandis que tes cheveux sont comme le trolley / A travers l’Europe vêtue de petits feux multicolores." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"Avec lui seul, la métaphore marque son entrée triomphante dans la peinture moderne" - André Breton
"Chagall ? Ivre d’images" - André Malraux
"Si toute vie va inévitablement vers sa fin, nous devons durant la nôtre, la colorier avec nos couleurs d'amour et d'espoir." - Marc Chagall
Art movements
+ SCHOOL OF PARIS MONTPARNASSE / 1915-1935 / Chaïm Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz, etc.
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