EDITION FROM S.P.A.D.E.M. 1985 AFTER THE ORIGINAL FROM 1960

"Boaz awakens and sees Ruth"

Numbered in pencil 1311/3000 VERSO Edition SPADEM PARIS

 A limited edition of 3000 copies worldwide luxury edition of 1985 - has been authorized yet by Marc Chagall. Marc Chagall created for the Bible Anno 1956 inter alia 16 full-page color lithographs and a color lithograph title page and the double sheet Large envelope lithography. The 16 full-page color lithographs and also large format color title page lithograph published Anno 1985 as a perfect granolithograph Edition in a limited edition of 3000 copies! Total of 17 magnificent 1:1 reproductions in 8-10 colors in Granolitho process on Fabriano laid paper!

Paper size: 10.25" x 13.75"   (26 cm x 35 cm)

comes with acid free PASSE PARTOUT (matted for easy framing) 15.75" x 19.5" (40 cm x 50 cm)

very good condition, never framed,matted for easy framing

Please note that there sometimes can be a slight color variation from Photo to actual art work

The images of Marc Chagall exert a strong fascination for many people. There is a big rush at exhibitions regularly , many communities organize trips to the Church of St. Stephan in Mainz, has created stained glass windows for Chagall, and other " Chagall places ." Marc Chagall The pictures load to deal with existential , especially with religious issues a . That means no charging or functionalization of the art, but an unfolding of what is created by the artists here in the pictures. Chagall had painted of early images with religious content . 1930 he received from the French art dealer and publisher Vollard commissioned to illustrate the Bible. 's work was interrupted by war and emigration. exiled heard the couple Chagall reports on the extermination of Jews in Europe , including those concerning the deportation and murder of their family members , relatives and friends in his native Vitebsk. During Bella Chagall this shock did not survive , Marc Chagall was convinced that such action could only be accomplished by people who do not know the Bible. Chagall felt the job that people with its funds , which the painting , the biblical message accommodate close . Until 1956 he completed the engravings for the Bible , created for the two VERVE Bibles 1956 and 1960 color lithographs and other etchings and began in 1955 with the large paintings of biblical message is for Chagall - . , such as for the Jewish faith at all - the Bible story of the ancestors and the living experience . everything essential is prefigured in it and extends as experience up to the present so he takes his pictures - . in etchings and lithographs, even more clearly in the great paintings of the " Biblical message of Marc Chagall " - the experience of his people and the people of his time into it. Chagall because not only simply reflects reality , not only " biblical scene " painted but always " other reality" in the images as a "His behind things ," an " addition " to speak his pictures the viewer to emotional depth layers . A dialog between image and viewer takes place. The images also offer the option of presenting diverse topics and encourage to read the stories depicted in the Bible.

Marc Chagall , was a Jewish Russian artist, born in Belarus (then Russian Empire) and naturalized French in 1937, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He forged a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall's haunting, exuberant, and poetic images have enjoyed universal appeal, and art critic Robert Hughes called him "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be “the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists.” For decades he “had also been respected as the world’s preeminent Jewish artist.” He also accepted many non-Jewish commissions, including a stained glass for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, a Dag Hammarskjold memorial at the United Nations, and the great ceiling mural in the Paris Opera.His most vital work was made on the eve of World War I, when he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his visions of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent his wartime years in Russia, and the October Revolution of 1917 brought Chagall both opportunity and peril. He was by now one of the Soviet Union's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avante-garde. He founded the Vitebsk Arts College, which was considered the most distinguished school of art in the Soviet Union. However, "Chagall was considered a non-person by the Soviets because he was Jewish and a painter whose work did not celebrate the heroics of the Soviet people." As a result, he soon moved to Paris with his wife, never to return.He was known to have two basic reputations, writes Lewis - as a pioneer of modernism, and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism’s golden age in Paris, where “he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism.” Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk."“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.

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