Chagall: The Breakthrough Years 1911�1919

This catalog explores the early work of Marc Chagall (1887�1985), forged as the artist was pulled between two different worlds. The book begins with Chagall�s breakthrough years in Paris, 1911 to 1914, and the paintings in which he combined his memories of Russian folk art and provincial life with the cutting-edge stylistic experiments he was exposed to through his life in the center of the Parisian avant-garde. When World War I broke out during a visit back home, Chagall was forced to spend the next eight years in Russia. The unexpected change of circumstances prompted a phase of searching self-scrutiny in the artist�s paintings and works on paper created in and after 1914. This volume explores Chagall�s early work in Paris and Russia, presenting a period of rapid artistic evolution and personal as well as political upheaval in the artist�s life.