Auction 109 Winner's Unlimited - Eretz Israel & Zionism, Postcards & Photographs, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis & Rebbes
Aug 21, 2018
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel

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LOT 32:

Signed Photograph of the All-Time Greatest Jewish Artist, Marc Chagall

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Start price:
$ 300
Estimated price:
$500 - $600
Auction house commission: 22%
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Signed Photograph of the All-Time Greatest Jewish Artist, Marc Chagall

Photograph of the Jewish artist, Marc Chagall, with his handwritten signature.

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was born Moshe Segal in Lionza, in the Russian Empire. His family was originally chassidic; as a child he studied in Talmud Torah. In 1906, he registered with the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He studied under Yehudah Pen. In 1910, after acquiring renown as an artist, he moved to Montparnasse, the artist's quarter in Paris. Subsequently, he returned to Russia, where he was involved in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolutionary government's ministry of the arts appointed him commissar for visual arts in the Vitebsk region. A few exhibitions of Chagall's work were held in Berlin. With the rise of the Nazis, they denounced his work. The events in Nazi Germany influenced Chagall's creations, which became more somber, and depicted the Jew's suffering. On April 8, 1971, he was awarded the second highest Legion of Honor by French President Jacque Chaban -Delmas, and in 1981 he won the Wolf Prize for art. Chagall visited Israel several times. On his final visit, in 1977, he was granted the title "Yakir Yerushalayim."

Size: 33x26 cm. Placed in a frame. Very fine condition.


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