Chagall, Modigliani, Soutine... Paris as a School, 1905-1940 - Exhibition catalogue

EK397506
Written in French.

Marc Chagall, Alice Halicka, Henri Hayden, Moïse Kisling, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Jules Pascin, Chaïm Soutine, Ossip Zadkine and many others: it is to this generation of Jewish artists who arrived between 1904 and 1914 and to their destinies...
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Characteristics

Number of illustrations
280
Artists
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943)
Art movements
20th century, Modern & Contemporary Art
Dimensions
16,3 × 22,4 × 2,6 cm
Themes
Paris, Religions
Reference
EK397506
EAN
9782711875061
Size of the book
Paperback with flap
Diffusor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme

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...