Chagall, Marc, Das Graphische werk, 1970
1957
Pastel drawing in Franz Meyer, Das Graphische werk, Frankfurt am Main, Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1957
28.3 x 22 cm
Signed, dated by the artist in blue pastel on the title page.
Das Graphische Werk – The Engraved Work – was written by Swiss art historian Franz Meyer, husband of Marc Chagall‘s daughter Ida. This reference book on Marc Chagall’s graphic work is accompanied here by a dedication to Miss Schacht and a drawing by the artist himself. The dedication is located in Vence, where Marc Chagall settled in the 1950s in the villa
About the author
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Of Russian origin, born into a very religious Jewish family with a strong attachment to folklore, Marc Chagall is one of those great figures of twentieth-century art who forged a highly personal body of work. He fashioned a poetic, ethereal space, often highly colored, inhabited by recurring symbolic motifs – the rooster, the donkey, the couple, the moon, bouquets and angels in particular. In 1964, André Malraux commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris.
