Man with a Sack
Marc Chagall
1922/1923 (printed 1950)
Medium
woodcut in black on velin paper
Dimensions
image: 28 x 20.2 cm (11 x 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 47.6 x 33.1 cm (18 3/4 x 13 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus
Accession Number
1995.84.1
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...