Pocket notebook Marc Chagall - Song of Songs IV (detail)

IP100136
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place
Theme
Religions
Artist
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Art movements
Modern & Contemporary Art, Cubism
Reference
IP100136
EAN
3336728352365
Matière de l'article
Paper
Model dimensions
9cm x 6cm
Package Dimensions
0.9cm x 0.6cm
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...