Marc Chagall Les fables de La Fontaine New edition

Fables Jean de La Fontaine illustrated by Marc Chagall

EK394664
Written in French.

3rd edition reviewed and corrected

In 1926, shortly after leaving Russia for France, Marc Chagall was commissioned by the merchant and art publisher Ambroise Vollard to illustrate Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine.

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Characteristics

Number of pages
144
Dimensions
17 × 24 × 1,5 cm
Art movement
Modern & Contemporary Art
Number of illustrations
43
Artist
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Reference
EK394664
EAN
9782711846641
Size of the book
Bound full paper without cover
Publication date
Mars 2003
Diffusor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Conservation museum
Nice - Musée national Marc Chagall

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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...