A Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer, Marc Chagall created a singularly poetic figurative oeuvre full of rich colors and dreamlike imagery – flying lovers, massive bouquets, melancholy clowns, fantastic animals, lonely fiddlers, and vibrant hearts – that made him one of the most popular early modern and Western artists of the 20th century. Born Moishe Shagal on 7 July 1887, in Vitebsk, in the Russian Empire, Chagall grew up among a devout Jewish community. After learning the elements of drawing at a local school and studying painting at Zvantseva in St. Petersburg. He moved to Paris in 1910, befriending such audacious Expressionist and Cubist painters including Chaim Soutine, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Andre Lhote, and other members of the young avant-garde. Chagall’s own practice, however, also absorbed the rich hues of the Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and Fauvist paintings popular at the time. Responding to these stimuli, Chagall produced works such as I and the Village, 1911, The Fiddler, 1912, and Paris Through the Window, 1913, essentially establishing the whimsical and emotional vocabulary that would characterize his art of the next 60 years. The development of his career and the vagaries of two World Wars forced Chagall to move repeatedly between France, Germany, and Russia while also spending time in the United States. While in North America, Chagall excelled beyond painting, designing sets and costumes for numerous performances by the American Ballet Theatre. Eventually returning to Paris, Chagall would continue to work in France alongside his two great loves: one, lasting more than 30 years, with Bella Rosenfeld, who appeared in myriad paintings from Birthday, 1915–23, to Around Her, 1945; the other, with Valentina Brodsky, who was featured in several of his later portraits. The artist died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera, where he had settled with Brodsky. Chagall’s six-panel stained-glass installation American Windows is permanently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Similarly, Chagall famously repainted the ceiling of Paris’s Palais Garnier for free, fulfilling the institution’s efforts to modernize. His works can also be found in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. According to Sotheby’s Mei Moses, the average compound annual return for Chagall resold at auction between 2003 and 2017 was 6.8% and 85.0% of 294 such works increased in value.

Marc Chagall

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Marc Chagall 1887 - 1985 Nu allongé signed Chagall and dated 912 (upper centre) pen and ink and gouache on paper 24 by 34.3 cm. 9½ by 13½ in. Executed in 1912. The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Comité Chagall.

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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Marc Chagall 1887 - 1985 Les Amoureux de Vence signed Marc Chagall (lower left); signed Marc Chagall and dated 1957 (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 72.5 by 99.5 cm. 28½ by 39¼ in. Executed in 1957. The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Marc Chagall.

les amoureux de vence

Marc Chagall 1887 - 1985 La Femme rouge au coq signed MArC ChAgAll (lower right) gouache, coloured crayon, pastel and brush and ink on paper 59 by 50 cm. 23¼ by 19⅝ in. Executed in 1970. The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Comité Chagall.

la femme rouge au coq

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, limited folio edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Tempest&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tempest</a>, signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (French-Russian).</li><li>After William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Monte Carlo:&nbsp;Andre Sauret,&nbsp;1975.</li><li>Folio.&nbsp;</li><li>Fifty lithographs overall, with original tissue guards.</li><li>Limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copies (this is #96), 270 the entire edition.</li><li>Original glassine wrappers; printed on Arches wove paper, in a cream vellum box, stamped in gilt on cover, held in original publisher's cardboard shipping box with label.</li></ul> A wonderful and evocative series of lithographs, produced when Chagall was 88 years old. When Raymond Levy of Editions André Sauret first approached the artist about illustrating Shakespeare's Tempest, Chagall initially hesitated because he was afraid he might not do justice to the text, but then between March and May 1975, he produced fifty drawings on tracing paper, which were transferred onto zinc plates and sent back to Chagall for final retouching.

The Tempest | Signed by Chagall

Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, from The Bible, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1956.<ul><li>March Chagall (Russia-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Etching, hand-colored with watercolor on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching is hand-colored by the artist in watercolor. It is signed in pencil "M. Ch." in the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, in the lower left margin. Each one of the 100 impressions was hand painted by Chagall in watercolor, making each impression a unique work. This etching is part of the The Bible series and was printed by Raymond Haasen, Paris in 1958 in a limited edition of 100 hand-coloured impressions. It is one the 105 images that Chagall created for this important series published by Tériade, Paris. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, from The Bible

The Village, from: Chagall: Jacques Lassaigne, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1957.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist ‘Marc Chagall’ at the lower right margin. It is also numbered from the edition of 90 at the lower left margin. It was printed by Fernand Mourlot and published by Editions Maeght, Paris. The paper bears a partial Arches watermark in the upper right margin. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

The Village, from: Chagall: Jacques Lassaigne

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1948.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Laid paper.</li><li>Hand-signed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. This is a proof aside from the edition of 90. The work is the 8th plate (of 12) from the album Four Tales from the Arabian Nights. This work was printed in 1948 in a limited edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions by Albert Carman, New York. It was published by Pantheon, New York. There is a thirteenth composition which was only included in ten of the portfolios. Each composition illustrates a piece of text from one of four tales from the Arabian nights. This composition relates to the story of “Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman”. The text from which the image was created is – “When Abdullah got the net ashore, he saw a man in it and he fled from him, but the man called out to him from within the net…” Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales from the Arabian Nights

Marc Chagall1887 - 1945Le CirqueParis, Tériade Éditeur, 1967.In-folio (425 x 324 mm).En feuilles, couverture en vélin d’Arches, sous chemise et étui toilés de l’éditeur.L’un des chef -d’oeuvres de Chagall.Textes de Marc Chagall.38 lithographies originales de Marc Chagall, dont 23 en couleurs, comprenant 3 sur double page.Les lithographies ont été t irées sur les presses de Mourlot.Édition unique à 270 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches. Exemplaire de collaborateur non signé.

Cirque

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gogol&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gogol</a>'s Les Âmes Mortes (Dead Souls), the first major book entirely illustrated and signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=marc%20chagall&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chagall</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Nicolai Gogol (Russian).</li><li>Illustrated by Marc Chagall (French-Russian).</li><li>Paris: Tériade, 1948.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with 96 etchings, hors-texte, and 11 etched vignettes, en-texte on Japon nacré.</li><li>Signed by Chagall in ink on the justification page.</li><li>Limited edition, one of 50 copies on vélin d’arches filigrané, this being numbered 27, from a total edition of 368.</li><li>Text in French.</li><li>All loose as issued in publisher’s printed cream colored wrappers, with cream colored chemises.</li></ul>&nbsp;Gogol’s masterpiece Dead Souls, the first major book entirely illustrated by Chagall and his first illustrations for Vollard. Written over five years at the end of the long pilgrimage that brought Gogol to Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, Dead Souls offers a vivid and ruthless portrait of a small swindler in provincial Russia in 1820. Published for the first time in 1842, the novel went on to exert a huge influence over the development of Russian literature. In 1923 the French publisher Ambroise Vollard asked Chagall to produce an illustrated edition. Chagall, who had always felt a strong emotional connection to the country where he spent his youth, agreed with enthusiasm and pursued the project between 1923 and 1927. However, like many other Vollard projects, the production of the work was interrupted and only completed years later. The final plate presents a particularly curious image in which Gogol reads and Chagall paints a portrait of Vollard.

Les Âmes Mortes

Take Up Again, Muses… Theocritus, from: In the Land of the Gods, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1967.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Published by A.C. Mazo, Paris, 1967.</li><li>Printed by Mourlot.</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.&nbsp;It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left corner. There was also an edition of 25 reserved for the artist, author, and collaborators. This subject is the ninth of twelve lithographs comprising the portfolio Sur la Terre des Dieux [In the Land of the Gods]. Reprenez muses, reprenez avec moi le chant bucolique. [Take up again, muses, take up again with me the bucolic song]. ﻿Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

Take Up Again, Muses… Theocritus, from: In the Land of the Gods| Reprenez Muses…Theocritus: Sur la Terre des Dieux

Marc Chagall(1887 - 1985) Scène biblique signed Marc Chagall (lower right) oil on canvas 43 ¼ by 49 ⅜ in. 109.9 by 125.4 cm. Executed circa 1980.&nbsp;

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