Marc Chagall (1887-1985)Embossed signature Chagall.EXODUS SUITE HAS 24 DIFFERENT PICTURES IN THIS EDITION FROM 1984.Numbered in pencil NUMBERED/1800 lower left, Edition S.P.A.D.E.M. PARISImage size: 14.5" x 19.75" (37 cm x 50 cm)Paper size: 17.75" x 23.25" ( 45 cm x 59 cm)Handmade paper with watermark Arches.FranceLimited edition of 1800 copies worldwide in this luxury edition of 1984 - has been authorized by Chagall. Marc Chagall illustrated 1966 the Exodus cycle with a total of 24 color lithographs. These 24 color lithographs were 1984 perfect Granolithograph's available as a limited edition of 1800 copies. Magnificent playing with 8-10 colors in this Granolitho process! Hand made ARCHES on laid paper with 4-fold deckle An antiquarian rarity! Perfect Granolithograph after the original 1966 made ​​by Mourlot. The original has a total circulation of only 285 copies, and is today, if such a museum piece is available at all times, in the four digits - depending on the design and maintenance.Marc Chagall created in 1966, the color lithographs to the book of Exodus Bible. Described the exodus of the people of Israel from Egypt, the salvation of Israel at the Red Sea and the covenant at Sinai. Not only with the title of his "cycle " but also in the artistic implementation and the order of representations, including Marc Chagall closely to the events described in the Book of Exodus. The processed images in the themes of liberation, and the exodus of the way allow many current connections to current events .In preparing his color lithographic cycle for Exodus Marc Chagall created first drawings in pencil on tracing paper. They were followed by 28 gouaches, 24 of them - are included in the color lithographic cycle - sometimes slightly altered or completed. Drawings and watercolors are now owned by the French state.good condition, never framed.Please consider the Photo's of the actual Artwork as part of the description.Please note that there sometimes can be a slight color variation from Photo to actual art workMarc Chagall , was a Jewish Russian artist, born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) and naturalized French in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He forged a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall's haunting, exuberant, and poetic images have enjoyed universal appeal, and art critic Robert Hughes called him "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be “the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists.” For decades he “had also been respected as the world’s preeminent Jewish artist.” He also accepted many non-Jewish commissions, including a stained glass for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, a Dag Hammarskjold memorial at the United Nations, and the great ceiling mural in the Paris Opera.His most vital work was made on the eve of World War I, when he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his visions of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent his wartime years in Russia, and the October Revolution of 1917 brought Chagall both opportunity and peril. He was by now one of the Soviet Union's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avante-garde. He founded the Vitebsk Arts College, which was considered the most distinguished school of art in the Soviet Union. However, "Chagall was considered a non-person by the Soviets because he was Jewish and a painter whose word did not celebrate the heroics of the Soviet people." As a result, he soon moved to Paris with his wife, never to return.He was known to have 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.” Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk."“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.

Very good condition