Marc Chagall
"The Blue Face" (Le Visage Bleu)
This art is:
- NEW
- HAND SIGNED
- Book Plate- Rare image
- COA (Certificate of Authenticity) is provided on the back of the artwork - photo provided.
- Custom Framed in an ornate black and gold carved antique-style gilt frame
- Framed Size: 19" x 21"
- Image Size: 8" x 10"
- Original Year: 1967
- Style: Surrealism / Expressionism / École de Paris
- Signature Motifs: The composition prominently highlights Chagall's iconic dreamlike, overlapping profiles rendered in deep blue tones.
- Vibrant Contrast: The left monochromatic blue side contrasts sharply with a warm, colorful right side showcasing a vase of red flowers and a whimsical figure.
- Signature: The artist's distinctive signature, "Marc Chagall", is clearly displayed near the bottom-center of the artwork area.
- Artistically, the piece acts as a visual metaphor for the duality of human emotion and memory. Chagall intentionally split the canvas into two distinct vertical halves to communicate contrasting moods. The Left Side (Sorrow & Introspection): The deep blue profile represents memory, spiritual peace, and the somber, dreamlike solitude of his past. The Right Side (Joy & Vitality): The bursts of warm yellow, red flowers, and a musician represent celebration, love, and the vibrant life of the present.
- Historically, The Blue Face marked an experimental turning point in Chagall's layout style. Rather than painting a specific story or folklore narrative first, he began this canvas by laying down purely abstract blocks of color. The floating figures and profiles were added later, treating the canvas as a harmonious playground for spontaneous poetic inventio
- Ready to hang hardware included
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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.