Magnet Marc Chagall - Mermaid and Fish

Magnet Marc Chagall - Mermaid and Fish

IS200738
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
1956-1960 - Gouache and pastel on paper / H. 77 ; L. 57 cm

Preparatory work for the lithograph "Mermaid and Fish" in the Marc Chagall National Museum, Nice
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Characteristics

Dimensions
5,4 x 7,9 cm
Artist
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Art movements
Modern & Contemporary Art, Cubism
Maintenance
Store in a dry place
Themes
Sea, Landscape, Made in France
Reference
IS200738
EAN
3336728534778
Matière de l'article
Metal alloys
Package Dimensions
5cm x 8cm
Conservation museum
Private Collection

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...