Postcard Chagall - Study for "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel"

IC201147
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Theme
Religions
Art movements
20th century, Modern & Contemporary Art, French paintings, Cubism
Artist
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Material
Paper
Reference
IC201147
EAN
3336728706984
Model dimensions
10cm x 15cm
Package Dimensions
1cm x 1.5cm
Editor
© Photo Rmn - GP musée Chagall
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...