{"title":"Marc Chagall","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarc Chagall (1887–1985, Vitebsk, Belarus) was a Russian-French painter, printmaker and designer whose practice across eight decades produced one of the most distinctive and widely recognised bodies of work in twentieth-century art. Drawing on Jewish folk tradition, Russian village life, the Bible and the visual languages of Fauvism and Cubism, Chagall developed a dreamlike, floating imagery of lovers, animals, musicians and religious figures that resisted easy categorisation within the movements of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving in Paris in 1910, Chagall encountered the avant-garde at its most concentrated moment, absorbing the colour of Fauvism and the fragmented space of Cubism while maintaining a deeply personal and narrative approach to painting. Works such as \u003cem\u003eI and the Village\u003c\/em\u003e (1911) and \u003cem\u003eThe Birthday\u003c\/em\u003e (1915) established the levitating, memory-saturated imagery that would define his practice. His illustrations for Gogol’s \u003cem\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/em\u003e (1923–25) and La Fontaine’s \u003cem\u003eFables\u003c\/em\u003e (1926–27), commissioned by the dealer Ambroise Vollard, confirmed his standing as one of the great printmakers of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChagall’s later career encompassed stained glass for Reims Cathedral and the United Nations, ceiling paintings for the Paris Opéra, and a sustained engagement with the Hebrew Bible through the \u003cem\u003eMessage Biblique\u003c\/em\u003e series, now housed in the Musée national Marc Chagall in Nice. His work is held in every major collection of modern art internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"centenaire-jean-paulhan-peinture-ecrit-bateau-lavoir-paris-1984","title":"ARTAUD, ALECHINSKY, BRAQUE, ERNST, CHAGALL, BALTHUS, KLEE, DUBUFFET, MICHAUX et al. — Centenaire de Jean Paulhan: De la peinture et de l’écrit. Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, 1984–85","description":"\u003cp\u003eLe Bateau-Lavoir, 18 rue de Seine, Paris, 11 December 1984–4 February 1985. Original folded exhibition invitation. Offset-printed card stock, 15 × 10.5 cm folded, 30 × 10.5 cm unfolded. Monochrome reproduction to cover; blank reverse; exhibition details with artist list inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Light age toning, minor handling and surface marks, and wear along the central fold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganised for the centenary of Jean Paulhan’s birth, the exhibition brought together work by artists including Antonin Artaud, Pierre Alechinsky, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Balthus, Paul Klee, Jean Fautrier, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Gaston Chaissac, Germaine Richier, Giorgio de Chirico, André Masson, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Odilon Redon. The accompanying catalogue was prepared by Mira Jacob and Claire Paulhan and combined reproductions with manuscript material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs editor of \u003cem\u003eLa Nouvelle Revue française\u003c\/em\u003e and a longstanding reader and supporter of painters, Paulhan occupied a position between literary publishing and visual art. His correspondence, criticism and editorial work connected figures who otherwise belonged to different generations and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation converts that network into a page. Names are distributed without chronology or hierarchy, moving between writers, painters and artist-writers. The centenary is recorded not through a portrait of Paulhan, but through the company assembled around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShips flat, securely backed and tracked from the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Le Bateau-Lavoir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54010298401106,"sku":"PAULHAN-BATEAULAVOIR-INV-1984","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Artaud_Alechinsky_Braque_Ernst_Chagall_Balthus._Show_invite_of_painting_and_writing_._1984.jpg?v=1784181297"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/marc-chagall.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}