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Fables Jean de La Fontaine illustrated by Marc Chagall
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Fables Jean de La Fontaine illustrated by Marc Chagall

Written in French.

3rd edition reviewed and corrected

In 1926, shortly after leaving Russia for France, Marc Chagall was commissioned by the merchant and art publisher Ambroise Vollard to illustrate Les Fables de Jean de La Fontaine.

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Characteristics

Number of pages :
144
Dimensions :
17 × 24 × 1,5 cm
Artist :
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Number of illustrations :
43
Museum :
Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Pompidou
Art movement :
Modern & Contemporary Art
EAN :
9782711846641
Size of the book :
Bound full paper without cover
Reference :
EK394664

Editor

Publication :
Mars 2003
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...