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The Satyr and the Traveler

Marc Chagall

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About The Artwork

Between 1927 and 1930, Chagall created 100 gouache paintings to illustrate The Fables by Jean de la Fontaine. Chagall later produced etchings of each of the gouaches and these were printed in 1952. The Fables consists of a collection of over 240 poems and tales of the country people. Each story conveys a moral, a life's lesson or a humorous event. Chagall hand-colored with watercolors 85 of the total edition. 240 impressions were signed in the plate.

About The Artist

Born in western Russia in 1887, Chagall studied art in St. Petersburg at the school of the Society for the Protection of the Arts and privately under Leon Bakst. In 1914 he first visited Paris, a city where he spent the greater number of his working days. He was approached by Ambroise Vollard, who commissioned him to produce a set of etchings for a deluxe art book. Their alliance resulted in some of the great masterpieces in modern art, including "Les Ames Morte (The Dead Souls)". Chagall's work can be summarized as combining his fantasy images with a modern French execution. Often he depicted couples in love, angels and scenes from the Bible. He was highly prolific during his lifetime that spanned 98 years.

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