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Artist:
Marc
Chagall
Title:
Paris
– L’Opéra – Le plafond de Chagall
Date:
1964
Size
(w x h): 25,2
x
38.6 in / 64
x 98.1 cm
Materials
and Techniques: Colour lithograph on paper
Linen
backing: Yes
Condition:
A (Designates
a poster in very good condition. Colours are fresh and there are
no or very few paper losses. If there are imperfections they are
marginal and imperceptible).
Additional
Details:
Poster
published by the French government to promote tourism in France,
and more specifically in Paris. A detail of the ceiling of the
Opera Garnier painted by Marc Chagall is represented: Romeo and
Juliet.
On
23 September 1964 André Malraux, then minister of cultural
affairs, inaugurated the ceiling of the main hall of the Opéra
Garnier, designed by Marc Chagall - a ceiling of more than 240 m²,
which covers the original made in the 19th century by the painter
Jules Lenepveu.
Marc
Chagall is a painter and engraver, born in 1887 in Liozna, near
Vitebsk, in Belarus, naturalized French in 1937, and died in 1985,
in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. His work has characteristics of surrealism
and neo-primitivism although it was not attached to any movement.
Further
information and photographs available upon request.
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