Original 1977 Exhibition Poster, Peintures Bibliques - Chagall

Date: 1977 Size: 20.5 x 30 inches inches Notes: Poster Artist: Chagall, Marc (After) About The Poster: This exhibition poster was created to advertise an exhibition of biblical paintings by symbolist French artist Marc Chagall. The Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall was built in 1970 in Nice to house the artist's biblical works. In 1973, Chagall himself inaugurated the museum along side the French minister of finance Maurice Druon. This poster is unlined and in very good condition. Original lithograph, Limited edition of 1500. Printed by Mourlot Imprimeur-Paris. Publised by Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice. Reference Catalogue raisonné: Maier-Preusker, Dr. Wolfgang. Marc Chagall. Die lithographischen Künstlerplakate und Varianten. Bonn, 1995, page 76, no. 64-b Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985), was a Russian-French artist associated with one of the most successful artistic careers of the 20th century. He was an early modernist and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. .. Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists." Before World War I, he traveled between St. 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 avante garde... 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." When Matisse dies," Picasso remarked during the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is." From a private collection.