Chagall, Marc, The Roofs, 1956
1956
Enhanced proof of the lithograph M. 163. Gouache on colored lithographic background.
65.7 x 50.3 cm
Print annotated Bon à tirer lower right, signed in pencil with the artist’s initials M.C., stamped by the Marc Chagall estate on the back.
Unique work
Catalog raisonné: Sorlier 163.
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.
