Chagall, Marc, The Blue Sky of Dreams, 1984
1984
Preparatory study in black for lithograph M.1040. Lithographic ink and graphite drawing on transfer paper, mounted on paper.
80.7 x 57.2 cm
Signed with the initials M.Ch lower right.
Unique work
Catalog raisonné: Sorlier 1040.
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.
