Chagall, Marc, Paris from the Window, 1969
1969
Original lithograph in color on Arches paper
Subject: 83 x 60 cm
Sheet: 100.5 x 70 cm
Annotated “Épreuve d’artiste VI/XXV” lower left, signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Mourlot Imprimeur, Paris.
Catalogue raisonné : Sorlier 599
During 1969, Marc Chagall produced several original lithographs on the theme of Paris, including Paris from the Window and The Magician of Paris I. Here, the artist depicts an embracing couple in front of a window overlooking Paris’s main monuments – the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame-de-Paris. Marc Chagall’s usual onirism is present: a horse flies through the skies over the capital.
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.
