Cantique de David, 1960

by Marc Chagall

Print : 28 x 25 inch

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Numbered and limited to 100 copies

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Hand-signed by artist

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28 x 25 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Golden wood frame with plexiglass

Artwork dimensions including frame

32 x 29 inch


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Artwork location: United States

Marc Chagall (1887-1985, Russian/French) - "Cantique de David" (Song of David) is one of 105 etchings from the artist's Bible Series. This is a very rare and nearly impossible work of art to find in the secondary market.

The etching is hand colored by Chagall in watercolor on Arches wove paper and the framing is magnificent. The piece depicts David, freed from all of his enemies, singing a hymn of victory to the Lord. Full provenance papers are included. This work of art was published by Teriade in 1956. The piece is initialed M.Ch. and numbered 69/100 in pencil. It measures 29 x 32 inches framed and matted to museum specifications to preserve the work forever.

La Bible is considered one of Chagall's most important works. In 1930, Marc Chagall was commissioned by notable art dealer and publisher, Ambroise Vollard, to complete an illustrated series of the Bible. Vollard believed the Bible was the most important piece of literature of all time and the cornerstone of Western tradition. Chagall spent the next eight years from 1931-1939 etching the plates. Before beginning this expansive suite of 105 etchings, Marc Chagall traveled to Palestine, Syria, and Egypt. The imagery of these pieces comes from direct experience with the land and people of the Bible.

The intense and detailed imagery in the Bible series is a product of Chagall's immense skill and concentration. He worked for a long time on each copper plate, sometimes making as many as twelve states and from four to fourteen trial proofs before Chagall felt that the piece was complete. It was in 1956 that the entire suite of etchings was finally completed. Chagall's Bible series became known as the first major illustrated edition of the Old Testament in modern times. This suite of original hand colored etchings was printed in an edition of 100, plus proofs. Each piece is hand initialed and numbered by the artist.

Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. (Lived: Jul 07, 1887 - Mar 28, 1985 (age 97), Spouse: Valentina Brodsky (m. 1952 - 1985) · Bella Rosenfeld (m. 1915 - 1944), Children: David McNeil (Son), Periods: Fauvism · Surrealism · Cubism · Expressionism · Modern art, Parents: Khatskl Shagal (Father), Awards: Wolf Prize in Arts (1981) · Erasmus Prize (1960)).
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Marc Chagall, Cantique de David
Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

France  • 1887  - 1985

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Marc Chagall is a painter and printmaker born in Belarus in 1887.

He was raised by his Jewish mother, who passed on to him the passion of man and made him read the Bible. Vitebsk, the area where he grew up, would always represent his childhood paradise and later greatly influence his artistic work.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Saint-Petersburg and then worked in a studio. He was pupil of Leon Bakst, who introduced him to Bella Rosenfeld, with whom he fell in love.

In 1910, he moved to Paris. There, he discovered Fauvism as the movement was fading, and Cubism just as it was emerging. He was fascinated by the joyful colors of Fauvism and by Cubism's deconstruction of objects. Even if he was living in Paris, Marc Chagall never forgot his native country, Russia, and never ceased to be inspire by it. In fact, the Jewish culture in which he grew up is always present in his work.

In Paris, Marc Chagall met Blaise Cendrars, Robert Delaunay and Guillaume Apollinaire with whom he became friends.

In 1914, He returned to Vitebsk, thinking he would only stay there a short while, but the First World War preventing him from coming back to France. He Married Bella with whom he had a daughter. He painted the life of the Jewish community, persecuted because they were suspected of collaborating with the Russians. After the Revolution, he let to Moscow, where he worked for the Jewish Art Theater.

Back in Paris, his friend Ambroise Vollard, ask him to do some illustrations for the" Fables de La Fontaine" and for the Bible. He did several gouaches for the religious texts that he considered to be " the biggest source of poetry of all time". He then did a collection of etchings about the Old Testament, which he donated to the French government. This latter has been exhibited in the Louvre and then at the National Museum of Biblical messages in Nice, which was later named National Museum Marc Chagall.

Marc Chagall can not be associated to one particular movement, since the artist preferred to combine several styles. However In his work we can find characteristics of surrealism and Neo-Primitivism. Marc Chagall created his paintings and prints inspired by his own intimate life.

He died in 1985 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.


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