Artists

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Marc Chagall

Russian/French 1887-1985 


Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal to a Jewish family in Vitebsk, Belarus. Chagall studied painting in Vitebsk and, in 1907, he went to St. Petersburg, where he studied intermittently for three years, including under the stage designer Léon Bakst. In 1910, he moved to Paris, where he lived in La Ruche and was exposed to avant-garde poets and numerous art movements, including Expressionism, Fauvism, Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstraction. The four years spent in Paris would have a lasting influence on his work.

During World War I, he moved back to Vitebsk and then on to Moscow, before leaving Russia for good in 1922. He went to Berlin, where he learned engraving techniques, before settling in Paris. He spent time in the United States of America during World War II and eventually returned to France in 1948, where he continued to produce prolifically for the rest of his life.

Known as one of the masters of European Modernism, Chagall worked in several media, including painting, drawing, and printmaking. In his later years, he also designed stage sets, worked in stained glass and illustrated books. Chagall was one of the major innovators of the 20th-century School of Paris. He created richly coloured, poetic, dream-like, and often whimsical images using repetitive motifs of flying lovers, massive bouquets of flowers, fiddlers on roofs, and fantastical animals.

Chagall exhibited extensively throughout his lifetime and was recognised by a retrospective exhibition of his work held at the Louvre in Paris in 1977.


22 lots offered      90.91% sold      ZAR 2 143 225
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Marc Chagall; Dedication (Mourlot 557)
25 Oct 2023
Sold for ZAR 56 280
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Isaiah, Bible No. 1 (Cramer 25, Mourlot 141)
25 Oct 2023
Sold for ZAR 41 038
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Joseph et Ses Frères (Mourlot 927)
25 Oct 2023
Sold for ZAR 52 763
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Le Petit Bouquet de Lys (Mourlot 909)
25 Oct 2023
Sold for ZAR 58 625
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Nature Morte Aax Fleurs (Mourlot 922)
25 Oct 2023
Sold for ZAR 10 553
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Concert in the Square (1983) (M. 1003)
28 Mar 2023
Sold for ZAR 128 975
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; La Ruse de Dorcon (Dorcon's Strategy), from Daphnis et Chloé (M. 317)
28 Mar 2023
Sold for ZAR 82 075
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Couple at Dusk (M. 972)
28 Mar 2023
Sold for ZAR 218 500
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Le Jeu des Acrobates
25 Apr 2022
Sold for ZAR 17 588
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; Jacob's Blessing
19 Oct 2020
Starting at ZAR 80 000
 
Marc Chagall; Der Akkordionspieler
7 Oct 2019
Sold for ZAR 73 970
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Marc Chagall; The Circus with the Yellow Clown
27 Nov 2017
Sold for ZAR 70 260
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT

Results in green indicate post sales.