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Chagall, le petit dictionnaire en 52 symboles

Chagall, le petit dictionnaire en 52 symboles

Angel, goat, flower, moon, snow, violin... 52 keys to understanding the signs and symbols in Chagall's work.

Conceived by the late Jean-Michel Foray as a final contribution to our knowledge of the painter, this unique book finally offers a genealogy to these sibylline characters, mysterious actors and ...
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Characteristics

Number of pages :
152
Dimensions :
13 x 17 cm
Artist :
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Number of illustrations :
72
Museum :
Musée national Marc Chagall
Art movements :
20th century, French paintings
EAN :
9782711861262
Size of the book :
Paperback without flap
Reference :
GB106126

Editor

Publication :
Février 2013
Diffusor :
EDITIONS FLAMMARION
Distributor :
EDITIONS FLAMMARION

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The artist

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

A painter, but also a sculptor and a poet, he was born in 1884 in Belarus into a modest family of Jewish origin. It was in his native city that he discovered painting, before leaving in 1907 to study at the Fine Arts School in St. Petersburg and start working in the studio of a Russian ballet decorator. Dreaming of discovering Paris, he settled there in 1911. As soon as he arrived, he met writers, poets and artists who lived in "La Ruche". This city of artists located in the 15th arrondissement of the capital has about a hundred workshops where artists of all nationalities live: Soutine, Archipenko, Zadkine, Léger, Delaunay...