Marc Chagall
Les Amoureux au-dessus de la Ville (Lovers above the City), 1922-23
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Custom Framed in a black with a silver lip wood frame 
Double Matted in white and black
Framed Size: 17" x 19"
Image Size: 7" x 9"
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Visual Elements and Symbolism
The Flying Lovers: The upper half features a man and a woman embracing and floating horizontally through the air.The figures represent Chagall himself and his beloved wife, Bella Rosenfeld. Their weightless flight symbolizes the euphoric, freeing feeling of true love.
The Signature: The name "Marc Chagall" is handwritten in a stylized blue ink on the middle-left side of the print, cutting through the empty space beneath the flying figures.
The Town Below: Beneath the couple lies a dense cluster of small houses with steeply pitched roofs and prominent fences, representing Chagall’s childhood home of Vitebsk.
The Small Figure: In the lower-center foreground, a tiny, solitary person sits on the ground near a wooden fence, contrasting the magical flight of the lovers with mundane everyday life.
 
 
 
Marc Chagall Biography
Marc Chagall was a French-Russian artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in the painting I and the Village (1911). “When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it—a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test,” he said. “If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.” Born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia (present-day Belarus) to a Hasidic Jewish family, the artist was raised immersed in Jewish culture and iconography. Studying under the artist Yehuda Pen as a youth, the Judaic traditions and folklore of his hometown permeated Chagall’s paintings. After studying in St. Petersburg, the artist moved to Paris in 1910, where he quickly befriended members of the French avant-garde, including Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger. Visiting Russia in 1914, the artist was prevented from returning to Paris due to the outbreak of World War I until 1926. In addition to his paintings, Chagall was also noted for his vibrant works in stained glass and lithography. Forced to flee Paris during World War II, Chagall lived in the United States and traveled through to Israel before returning to France in 1948. The artist died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France on March 28, 1985. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Albertina in Vienna, among others. <