Invitation for Musée National's "Marc Chagall's Biblical Message Exhibition"
1973
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5-color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 11 x 15 cm (4 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 11 x 30 cm (4 5/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus
Accession Number
1997.95.9
Art Historical Context
This 1973 lithograph served as an invitation to the Musée National’s exhibition “Marc Chagall’s Biblical Message,” highlighting the artist’s lifelong engagement with biblical themes. Created late in Chagall’s career, the work reflects his distinctive modernist style, which blended dreamlike imagery, vibrant color, and Jewish cultural motifs drawn from his Russian roots and adopted French home. The compact format—measuring just 11 by 30 centimeters—transforms a functional announcement into a miniature artwork that captures the exhibition’s spiritual focus. Printed in five colors on wove paper,...
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...