Square postcard 'Illustration for the Circus, serie Tériade edition (detail)'

IC400252
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Theme
Scenic arts
Artists
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Anonymous
Art movement
Modern & Contemporary Art
Reference
IC400252
EAN
3336728331797
Matière de l'article
Paper
Model dimensions
13cm x 13cm
Package Dimensions
1.3cm x 1.3cm
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Pompidou

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...