Postcard Chagall - The Appearance of the Artist's Family (detail)

IC401344
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Themes
Gender and interior scene, Made in France
Artist
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Art movements
Modern & Contemporary Art, Cubism
Reference
IC401344
EAN
3336728543855
Matière de l'article
Paper coated
Model dimensions
13cm x 13cm
Conservation museum
Lille - Palais des Beaux-Arts

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...