Inventory
Classified Ads
Emerging Artists
Retail Price Lists
About Doubletake
Reciprocal Links
How To..
Power Search
Home


Member Services
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Doubletake Gallery
Quality Fine Art Consignments


Marc Chagall  is one of the many artists whose works are always sought after by Doubletake Gallery clients. If you own something by Marc Chagall, and you're considering selling, please contact us for details about our service.

When you visit Doubletake Gallery's website, you'll find hundreds of fine art pieces pictured and fully described on one of the easiest to use, most content rich websites on the Internet. Enjoy your visit!



Artist's Biography

Marc Chagall, often referred to as the "James Joyce of Art", managed to develop and preserve his own unique style and vision in a time when the world's view of art was in a constant state of flux. Of the many modern art movements, including Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, DeStijl, and Surrealism, Chagall, though he repeatedly resisted the label, is often grouped with the surrealists.

Surrealism may take a number of distinct forms each of which, is characterized by the irrational approach, and construction, of unreal, unworldly, mysterious figures, either painted extremely meticulously, or constructed in near abstract shapes. Chagall, who calls his work, "pictorial arrangements of images that obsess me" incorporates Eastern and Western art, his childhood village and dreams, subconscious fantasies, and lovers, in a magic world of beauty and color, that is sometimes sad, yet untouched by corrupting influences. This inner world or "la Chagallite", as it is sometimes called, defies both logic and physics, and once viewed, is not easily forgotten.

Chagall was born in the Jewish quarter of Vitebsk, White Russia, on July 7, 1887. His parents were frugal, honest people who were dismayed at his interest in becoming a painter. Against their wishes he enrolled in the local art school and later studied art under Leon Bakst, at a private school in St. Petersburg. It was there a lawyer named Vinaver admired the young man's earnest, highly untraditional creations and gave him an allowance which enabled him to travel to Paris in 1910. Once there, Chagall fell in love with France and the "City of Light" and later spent most of his adult life there.

In 1914, after some success in Paris and Berlin, Chagall returned to Vitebsk just before the outbreak of World War I to marry his childhood sweetheart, Bella Rosenfeld. (When he was to return to Europe after the war he would discover that of the several hundred paintings he had left behind, nearly all of them disappeared) From 1914-1922, Chagall, while continuing to paint, was in turn, Commissar of Fine Arts for the new Bolshevist government in Vitebsk, founder of a new Academy for Fine Arts in Vitebsk, and set designer for the Jewish State Theater, and playwright Gogol. His painting, however, did not please the new party officials who angrily asked, "Why is the cow green and why is the horse flying in the sky? What has that to do with Marx and Lenin?" After a disagreement with another group of artist, Chagall left Moscow for Berlin, where his paintings had since become accepted. Later, in his autobiography, "My Life" (1933) he was to write: "Neither Imperial Russia, nor Soviet Russia needs me. I am a mystery, a stranger to them%85perhaps Europe will love me, and with her, my Russia."

And love him it did. For the rest of his life, from continent to continent, success followed Chagall wherever he went. His work took him around the world - producing paintings, lithographs, murals, illustrations, marble reliefs, sets and costumes, and stained glass windows for scores of exhibitions, books, operas, ballets and cathedrals. Chagall is painter of love, painting the things he loved: his wife, people, flowers, animals, and his home town. Although he practiced his art in Russia for no more than 12 years, the locale for most of his works was still the Jewish section of Vitebsk. It is to his credit that through all these years he has kept his vision, his "la chagallite" intact. Misunderstood at first, Chagall's world has grown to be loved and accepted by people everywhere.

I and the Village by Marc ChagallParis L'Opera by Marc ChagallThe Flying Sleigh by Marc ChagallThe Lovers by Marc ChagallVitraux Pour Jerusalem by Marc Chagall


In addition to Marc Chagall, Doubletake Gallery is a great source for any of the following artists.

Robert Addision
Yaacov Agam  Bio
Harold Altman  Bio
Alvar  Bio
Manel Anoro  Bio
Karel Appel  Bio
John Asaro  Bio
Guillaume Azoulay
Basso
Robert Bateman
Howard Behrens
Tom Bennett
Graciela Rodo Boulanger  Bio
Charles Bragg  Bio
Romero Britto  Bio
Jim Buckels  Bio
Bernard Buffet
Michael Burns
Alexander Calder  Bio
Marc Chagall  Bio
Mihail Chemiakin  Bio
Christo
Francesco Clemente
Chuck Close
Mike Curtis
Edward S. Curtis  Bio
Salvador Dali  Bio
Willem de Kooning  Bio
Michel Delacroix  Bio
Richard Diebenkorn  Bio
Jim Dine  Bio
Disney
Bev Doolittle
John Douglas  Bio
Eyvind Earle  Bio
Erte  Bio
Roy Fairchild  Bio
Chester Fields
Sam Francis
Helen Frankenthaler  Bio
Jerry Garcia
Yankel Ginzburg  Bio
Jurgen Gorg
R.C. Gorman
Rodney Alan Greenblat
Rene Gruau
Nancy Hagin
Kerry Hallam
H. Hargrove
Keith Haring
Frederick Hart  Bio
Don Hatfield  Bio
He Neng
Edna Hibel
David Hockney
Howard Hodgkins
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Louis Icart
Robert Indiana
Scott Jacobs  Bio
Jiang  Bio
Jasper Johns
Ellsworth Kelly
Melanie Taylor Kent
Mark King  Bio
Thomas Kinkade  Bio
John Kiraly
Charles Klabunde
Mark Kostabi
Miklaus Kravjansky  Bio
Muramasa Kudo
Christian Lassen
Le Ba Dang  Bio
Fanch Ledan  Bio
John Lennon
Roy Lichtenstein  Bio
Earl Linderman  Bio
Llado
Robert Longo
Lu Hong  Bio
Aldo Luongo
Richard MacDonald  Bio
Bill Mack  Bio
Robert Mapplethorpe
Jennifer Markes
Martiros
Henri Matisse
Roberto Matta
Peter Max  Bio
Barbara McCann
Thomas McKnight  Bio
Joan Miro  Bio
Joni Mitchell
Vicki Montesino
Henry Moore
Robin Morris
Robert Motherwell
Patrick Nagel
Alexandra Nechita  Bio
LeRoy Neiman  Bio
Leonardo Nierman  Bio
Manuel Nunez
Shimon Okshteyn
Claes Oldenburg
Olivia
Hisashi Otsuka
Michael Parkes
Ramon Parmenter  Bio
Linnea Pergola
Frederick Phillips
Pablo Picasso  Bio
Claude Pissarro  Bio
Henri Plisson  Bio
Jackson Pollock  Bio
Thomas Pradzynski  Bio
Fredrick Prescott
Anthony Quinn  Bio
Robert Rauschenberg
Terry Redlin  Bio
Susan Rios
Larry Rivers
James Rizzi  Bio
Norman Rockwell  Bio
James Rosenquist
G.H. Rothe  Bio
Royo  Bio
Edward Ruscha
David Salle
Scott Sandell  Bio
Calman Shemi  Bio
Viktor Shvaiko
Nicola Simbari  Bio
Red Skelton
Frank Stella
Donald Sultan
Rufino Tamayo  Bio
Itzchak Tarkay
Ting Shao Kuang
Tinguely
Theo Tobiasse  Bio
Tolliver
Alberto Vargas
Victor Vasarely  Bio
Andy Warhol  Bio
Paul Wegner
Tom Wesselmann
Tony Whelihan
Michael Wilkinson  Bio
Wong Shue
Hiro Yamagata
Yamin Young  Bio
Yuroz  Bio
Zhou Ling
Joanna Zjawinska
Francisco Zuniga  Bio


Last Updated 03/03/2002
Powered by
encore

Audio Services by
Audio by BYOBroadcast.com

Emerging Artists by
ArtCrawl.com



Visitors since 12/1/1996


Inventory | Classified Ads | Emerging Artists | Retail Price Lists
Member Services | Links Page | Power Search | About Doubletake | How to..



[an error occurred while processing this directive]

[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Email : info@doubletakeart.com
http://www.DoubletakeGallery.com