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Marc ChagallThe Automobilist, from: My Life - Russian French Berlin Autobiography Surrealism
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This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at the lower left margin.
There were 84 impressions on laid paper and a further 26 impressions on Japan paper.
It was published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin in 1923.
Note: The work was part of Chagall's important and renowned series "Mein Leben" (My Life), which included different etchings, all relating to significant events in his life. It was intended to illustrate his first autobiography.
Literature: Kornfeld, E.W. (1971). Marc Chagall – Catalogue Raisonné de l’ouevre gravé. Vol I 1922-1966. Bern: Kornfeld & Klipstein.
Reference: Kornfeld 26
Condition: Very good condition. The sheet is lightly toned. Minor, pinpoint foxing scattered across the sheet.
- Creator:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985, French)
- Dimensions:Height: 13.86 in (35.2 cm)Width: 10.67 in (27.1 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Edition of 110Price: $7,000
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU18013269492
Marc Chagall
Described by art critic Robert Hughes as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century," the Russian-French modernist Marc Chagall worked in nearly every artistic medium. Influenced by Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism, he developed his own distinctive style, combining avant-garde techniques and motifs with elements drawn from Eastern European Jewish folk art.
Born Moishe Segal in 1887, in Belarus (then part of the Russian empire), Chagall is often celebrated for his figurative paintings, but he also produced stained-glass windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, in France; for the United Nations, in New York; and for the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, as well as book illustrations, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine-art prints. Characterized by a bold color palette and whimsical imagery, his works are often narrative, depicting small-village scenes and quotidian moments of peasant life, as in his late painting The Flight into Egypt from 1980.
Before World War I, Chagall traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. When the conflict broke out, he returned to Soviet-occupied Belarus, where he founded the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He fled to the United States during World War II but in 1947 returned to France, where he spent the rest of his life. His peripatetic career left its mark on his style, which was distinctly international, incorporating elements from each of the cultures he experienced.
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