Chagall Love And Exile
Chagall Love And Exile by Jackie Wullschlager, published by National Geographic Books on May 25, 2010, is a comprehensive biography that delves into the life of the renowned artist Marc Chagall. Spanning 640 pages, this edition presents a detailed exploration of Chagall’s journey from his early years as the son of a Russian Jewish herring merchant to his emergence as a pivotal figure in modern art. The narrative captures the complexities of his experiences, including themes of struggle, heartbreak, and exile, set against the backdrop of significant historical events.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of Chagall’s life, illustrated with two hundred paintings, drawings, and photographs, many of which are previously unseen. The biography draws on extensive interviews with Chagall’s family, friends, and associates, offering insights into his artistic evolution and personal challenges. Through this account, Wullschlager provides a nuanced understanding of Chagall not only as an artist but also as a man shaped by the tumultuous times he lived through, making this work a significant contribution to the fields of biography and art history.
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‘When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.’
Picasso said this in the 1950s, when he and Chagall were eminent neighbours living in splendour on the Cote d’Azur. But behind Chagall’s role as a pioneer of modern art lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, lost love, exile, and the miracle of survival.
Born the son of a Russian Jewish herring merchant, Chagall fled the repressive “potato-coloured” czarist empire in 1911 to develop his genius in Paris, living alongside Modigliani and Leger in La Ruche, the artist’s colony where “you either died or came out famous”. Through war and revolution in Bolshevik Russia, Weimar Berlin, occupied France and 1940s New York, he gave form to his dreams, longings and memories in paintings which are among the most humane and joyful of the 20th century. Drawing on numerous interviews with the artist’s family, friends, dealers, collectors, and illustrated with two hundred paintings, drawings and photographs, many previously unseen, this elegantly written biography gives for the first time a full and true account of Chagall the man and the artist – and of a life as intense, theatrical and haunting as his paintings.
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