Oil on Canvas painting, Marc Chagall: White Crucifixion, 1938 (In the style of)…. Measures: 60 x 40 cms approx…...……This item will sell as "in the style of" (under Auction Policies) ….…… In 1938, Marc Chagall, came from a Jewish family and received his childhood education at home (the study of the Talmud, the Torah and the Hebrew language), was shocked by the reports of Kristallnacht — the mass Jewish pogrom in Germany. Impressed by this event, the artist writes "White crucifixion" is the first painting by Marc Chagall, in which he uses the image of Jesus as a symbol of the suffering of the Jewish people. In the painting Marc Chagall's "White crucifixion" depicts the persecution of the Jewish people, everywhere, took place in the early twentieth century. Burn in the fire ravaged houses, people crying over the bodies of dead relatives, lying on the ground the sacred scrolls — all of this is happening around the figure of the crucified Jesus, occupying the Central part of the canvas.

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