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LOTE 39:
Letter from Marc Chagall about Art. Paris, Early 20th Century
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Letter from Marc Chagall about Art. Paris, Early 20th Century
Autograph by Marc Chagall with his signature. Paris, early 20th century.
Specifications: [1] leaf, paper, written on both sides. 21x27 cm. Yiddish. In the artist's handwriting and with his signature. In the letter before us, which was written when the artist was young, he mentions Vitebsk and gives addresses in Paris and Berlin.
The artist Marc Chagall [1887-1985] was one of the foremost surrealist artists, and is considered by many to be the greatest Jewish painter of all times. He was born to a Chassidic Jewish family in the Vitebsk region, which was part of the Russian empire (currently in Belarus), studied in the Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg, moved to the artists' quarter of Paris [in 1910], from where he returned to Russia [1914], from there to Lithuania [1922], stayed in Berlin and returned to Paris [1923], he escaped from the Nazis to the United States [1941] and returned to France [1949].
Condition: Fine. Fold marks, filing holes, slight stains.
