Marc CHAGALL (Vitebsk 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de... - Lot 56 - Oger - Blanchet

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Marc CHAGALL (Vitebsk 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de... - Lot 56 - Oger - Blanchet
Marc CHAGALL (Vitebsk 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de Vence) The Jew at Prayer, ca.1975 Sleeve, gouache, ink and coloured pencils. Signed lower right. 68,5 x 50 cm (at sight) Provenance: Bernheim Jeune Gallery, Paris Bibliography : Art of Mercy, s.ed. Kharkiv], n.d., No. 51; Chagall and others, Kharkiv 2007, p.1. A certificate from Marc Chagall's Committee will be given to the buyer. Marc Chagall, an unclassifiable artist, is nevertheless very present in the history of modern painting. Already in his early days he had difficulty finding his place in traditional art education. It is to Iehuda Pen, academic painter of his native town, that he owes the beginnings of his apprenticeship and it is he who will recognize the talent of his pupil. To practice painting in this environment is to defy the prohibitions of traditional education. But Chagall's talent, which needed to blossom, led him to Petersburg where he enrolled at the Steglitz School, then became a pupil of Nicolas Roerich. Later, he became close to Leon Bakst, one of the key figures in the revival of Russian art. His first stay in Paris, between 1910 and 1914, brought him into direct contact with the capital's artistic world in all its bubbling variety. He assimilated the influences of fauvism and cubism, which resulted in a certain geometrisation of his compositions. Another confrontation of his sensitivity to a different conception of art takes place after his return to Vitebsk, within the UNOVIS school. His poetic vision of reality remains incompatible with the rigid theories of Malewicz and El Lissitzky. This art where Chagall mixes reality and dream, lyrical and grotesque, does not correspond to any doctrine. Apollinaire called him a "supernatural painter", Breton gave him the role of the one who "opened the way to Surrealism". This composition from the last period of his life presents Chagall's art in its purified form, free from th
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