Fine Art, Silverware, Judaica, Chinese and Decorative Art, Part I - Tuesday, Jan 12th
פריט 19643:
Description
Unsigned. Bears stamp of Kasimir Hagen Collection, Koln (on the reverse)
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
32 x 24 cm
Details
Kasimir Hagen (1887-1965), a Cologne based post office clerk, collected antiquities throughout his life, purchasing rare objects at auctions and rummaging Antique Shops. His collection, spanning Western art and the Middle Ages up to the Modern era included paintings, sculptures, furniture, art and crafts and was donated to various museums throughout Germany.
Condition
Restored tear on middle and on edges.
Notes
The original, painted with crayon and ink in 1911, is located in the Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. See: "Marc Chagall, Les anneés russes, 1907-1922", Musée d'art modern de la Ville de Paris, 13 April-17 September 1995, no. 45 p. 148 (illustrated).
Biography
Marc Chagall (1887-1985), French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, designer, sculptor, ceramicist and writer of Belarussian birth. Born in Vitebsk [now Viciebsk], Belarus', in 1887. Died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes in 1985. A prolific artist, Chagall excelled in the European tradition of subject painting and distinguished himself as an expressive colourist. His work is noted for its consistent use of folkloric imagery and its sweetness of colour, and it is characterized by a style that, although developed in the years before World War I, underwent little progression throughout his long career. Though he preferred to be known as a Belarussian artist, following his exile from the Soviet Union in 1923 he was recognized as a major figure of the Ecole de Paris, especially in the later 1920s and the 1930s. In his last years he was regarded as a leading artist in stained glass.
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