Chagall, Marc, The Blue Nude, 1978
1978
Preparatory study in black for lithograph M.1049
65.7 x 50 cm
signed with the initials MC in the lower right-hand corner of the subject, stamped by the Marc Chagall estate in the lower right-hand corner of the sheet.
Unique work
Catalogue raisonné: Sorlier 1049.
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.
