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Paris Opera - Horiz - Chagall L

Paris Opera - Horiz - Chagall L

ID# 13701
Marc Chagall
1965
38.75" x 28.25"
(98cm x 72cm)
Regular price ¥244,100 JPY
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This original vintage poster by Marc Chagall was created in 1965 for the Paris Opera House for a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Chagall also created a mural on the ceiling of the famous opera house. He was best known for his dream-like images with colorful, floating figures and objects. This poster also includes famous monuments of Paris in the background.

Marc Zakharovich Chagall, born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal (1887 - 1985), was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.
Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.

He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is".

This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. This poster is conservation mounted, linen backed. It has been expertly restored for creases and tears. This restoration will be imperceptible once framed. THe price reflects the condition.
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