Féla and Odilon
1915
Medium
gouache and watercolor over black chalk on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 42.5 x 33.8 cm (16 3/4 x 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Evelyn Stefansson Nef in memory of John U. Nef and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1989.85.1
About the Artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Liozna near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), grew up as the eldest of nine children in a devout Jewish family confined to the Pale of Settlement. His father worked as a herring merchant's porter, while his mother sold groceries from home, instilling in young Chagall a deep connection to Hasidic Judaism and Eastern European folklore a...