Chagall

📓 Whether he portrays his childhood village of Vitebsk or his later home in Paris, illustrates La Fontaine's fables or the Old Testament, Chagall's violin-playing horses, floating lovers or Biblical kings inhabit a magic realm unique in contemporary art. Based on private memories, defying logic and the rules of physics, his canvases elaborate an inner world of beauty and color that seems untouched by corrupting influences. He is one of the most supremely accomplished of artists, but it is his preservation of this inner world, his chagallite, as it has been called, that makes him the outstanding lyric painter of our times. This book provides a magnificent panorama of Chagall's work from his early Paris paintings, with their Fauve or Cubist influences, to the Daphnis and Chloe illustrations and the Jerusalem Windows of the 1960s. Included are many of his famous paintings, I and the Village, Lovers at the Eiffel Tower and others, as well as lesser-known but equally exquisite masterworks such as the Wailing Wall, illustrative of the variety and range of Chagall's talent. A good number of his finest lithographs are also reproduced. The biographical introduction and plate notes by a distinguished author and art critic provide authoritative background and commentary on Chagall, both as man and artist.