Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice - Visitor's guide (French)

Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice - Visitor's guide

GG107216
The Musée National Marc Chagall is home to the world's biggest collection of works by the painter.

This superb setting was built at the instigation of André Malraux to house Chagall's donation to the French State, centring on the seventeen monumental works that form his Biblical Message cycle.

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Characteristics

Dimensions
17 x 24 cm
Art movements
20th century, Modern & Contemporary Art
Artist
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
German
Reference
GG107216
EAN
9782711872169
Size of the book
Paperback without flap
French
Reference
GG107217
EAN
9782711872176
Size of the book
Paperback without flap
English
Reference
GG107218
EAN
9782711872183
Size of the book
Paperback without flap
Italian
Reference
GG107219
EAN
9782711872190
Size of the book
Paperback without flap
Japanese
Reference
GG107220
EAN
9782711872206
Size of the book
Paperback without flap
Russian
Reference
GG107221
EAN
9782711872213
Size of the book
Paperback without flap
Diffusor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Conservation museum
Nice - Musée national Marc Chagall

The work and its artist

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

A painter, but also a sculptor and a poet, he was born in 1884 in Belarus into a modest family of Jewish origin. It was in his native city that he discovered painting, before leaving in 1907 to study at the Fine Arts School in St. Petersburg and start working in the studio of a Russian ballet decorator. Dreaming of discovering Paris, he settled there in 1911. As soon as he arrived, he met writers, poets and artists who lived in "La Ruche". This city of artists located in the 15th arrondissement of the capital has about a hundred workshops where artists of all nationalities live: Soutine, Archipenko, Zadkine, Léger, Delaunay...