Sunday 11 February 2018

Marc Chagall - part 6


Marc Zakharovich Chagall (born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov 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.

For more biographical information see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 5 also.

This is part 6 of a major 28-part series on the works of Marc Chagall:



1923 The Praying Jew
oil on canvas 116.8 x 89.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1923 The Violinist
oil on canvas 78 x 42 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Note: An almost identical painting to one shown in part 5 (Music: Jewish Theatre):

1923-24 The Green Violinist
oil on canvas 198 x 108.6 cm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1923 The Watering Trough
oil on canvas 99.7 x 88.1 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1923-25 The Wandering Jew
oil on canvas 72 x 57 cm
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain ( MAMCO ), Geneva, Switzerland

1923-27 Les Âmes mortes (Dead Souls):

These scenes of life in Russia were still fresh in Chagall's mind in 1923, when he began the etchings for Nikolai Gogol's novel “Les Âmes mortes,” the classic Russian text that was to be his first book collaboration with the renowned publisher Ambroise Vollard. A notorious perfectionist, Vollard left twenty-five unfinished projects at the time of his death in 1939, including “Les Âmes mortes.” The volume was later completed in 1948 by Tériade, another of the great twentieth-century publishers of illustrated books.


Agapes Chez le Maître de Police
etching 27.7 x 21.8 cm ( plate )

Attroupement des Paysans
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.8 x 21.5 cm ( plate )

À L'Église
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.5 x 21 cm ( plate )

À La Barrière de la Ville
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21.3 x 27.6 cm ( plate )

À La Trésorerie, Le Nouveau Chef
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 21.1 x 27.8 cm ( plate )

Bal Chez Le Gouverneur
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21.2 x 30.5 cm ( plate )

Games Charmante et Charmante À Tous Égards
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.7 x 21.1 cm ( plate )

Chichikov Arrives at the Ball
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22 x 27.7 cm ( plate )

Collision en Chemin
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.1 x 28.5 cm ( plate )

Dispute de Pliouchkine et de Mavra
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper  21.5 x 27.6 cm ( plate )

En Chemin
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper  21.9 x 12.8 cm ( plate )

En Route vers Sobakévitch
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22 x 29.7 cm ( plate )

Étendus sur le Lit
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21.9 x 27.5 cm ( plate )

Gogol et Chagall
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 27.5 x 21 cm ( plate )

Grigori va Toujours et tu n'arriveras pas
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22 x 28.6 cm ( plate )

Kopéïkine ou Napoléon
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 27.8 x 21.1 cm ( plate )

L'arrivée de Tchitchikov
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22 x 28.5 cm ( plate )

L'Enterrement du Procureur
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21 x 27.8 cm ( plate )

L'homme Sans Passeport Devant Le Capitaine-Ispravnik
etching and drypoint n Arches wove paper 27.3 x 21.1 cm ( plate )

L'indication de la Route
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 28.3 x 22.4 cm ( plate )

L'Intendant
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 28.9 x 19.5 cm ( plate )

L'Orgie Dégénère en Rixe
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 23.5 x 27.7 cm ( plate )

La Britchka S'est Renversée
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 22.8 x 29.4 cm ( plate )

La Chambre de Pliouchkine
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.6 x 21.5 cm ( plate )

La Femme du Gouverneur Gonde sa Fille
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.5 x 21-1 cm ( plate )

La Femme Moineau
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.8 x 21cm ( plate )

La Fuite Tout Nu
etching, drypoint and aquatint on Arches wove paper 21 x 27.8 cm ( plate )

La Maison de Sobakévitch
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21.2 x 27.8 cm ( plate )

La Maison du Traktir
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 27.8 x 23.5 cm ( plate )

La Naissance de Tchitchikov
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.6 x 20.4 cm

La Petite Ville
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22 x 28.7 cm ( plate )

La Rencontre en Houppelande
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.7 x 22 cm ( plate )

La Soirée Chez Le Gouverneur
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.1 x 28.6 cm ( plate )

La Table Chargée de Victuailles
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.7 x 21.4 cm ( plate )

La Toilette de Tchitchikov
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.6 x 22 cm ( plate )

La Troïka au Soir
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21 x 27.5 cm ( plate )

Labourage
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21.1. x 27.7 cm ( plate )

Le Pot De Vin
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 22.3 x 27.7 cm ( plate )

Le Basse-Cour
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.6 x 29.8 cm ( plate )

Le Bureau des Contrats
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.7 x 22.1 cm ( plate )

Le Cocher Donne á Manger aux Chevaux
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 21.5 x 27.9 cm ( plate )

Le Cocher Sélifane
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.1 x 28.6 cm ( plate )

Le Conciliabule des Fonctionnaires
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.7 x 27.8 cm ( plate )

Le Garde au Réverbère
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.6 x 22.1 cm ( plate )

Le Père De Tchitchikov Lui Donne Une Correction
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 27.8 x 21 cm ( plate )

Le Père Mitiaï et le Père Miniaï
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.8 x 21.5 cm ( plate )

Le Port au Blé
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 21.2 x 27.7 cm ( plate )

Le Procureur en Mourut
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 21 x 27.8 cm ( plate )

Le Suisse ne Laisse Pas Entrer Tchitchikov
etching and aquatint on Arches wove paper 27.7 x 23.5 cm ( plate )

Le Thé du Matin
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.6 x 29.5 cm ( plate )

Le Traktir
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 22.2 x 28.7 cm ( plate )

Le Tribunal
etching and drypoint on white wove paper 22.3 x 28 cm ( plate )

Le Vieux Parc de Pliouchkine
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 27.7 x 21.3 cm ( plate )

Le Village de Pliouchkine
etching and drypoint on Arches wove paper 21.2 x 27.7 cm ( plate )
Les Âmes mortes (Dead Souls) continues in Part 7.

Note: This is such a big series, that I will try to post every other day. I always post alerts on Twitter: @poulwebb


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