Marc Chagall - The Green Eiffel Tower

Title of artwork: La Tour Eiffel Verte Technique: Lithography Signature: Not signed Year: 1957 Condition: In excellent condition, professionally framed. Image dimensions: 23 x 20 cm Frame dimensions: 49.5 x 39.5 cm Framed in an authentic luxurious wooden frame. Red with gold mixed with black sides. The frame is 2 cm high and 2 cm wide. Origin: Beautiful lithograph by Marc Chagall. This lithograph comes from the book 'Chagall' by Jacques Lassaigne, first edition from 1957 (see photo). In 1957, on the occasion of Chagall's seventieth birthday, a book written by Jacques Lassaigne was published. Chagall made 15 lithographs for this book, 5 of which were printed on a double page. So these have a fold in the middle. The edition of the book and therefore also of the lithographs was 6000. The back of the lithograph is unprinted. Comes from a private collection, purchased via auction house Koorendijk from Middelburg. Responsibility for work: Mourlot 201 from Paris. Marc Chagall was a Russian-French artist, who created paintings, stained glass windows, ceramics, book illustrations, tapestries, prints. Although he was influenced by different styles, cubism, expressionism, symbolism, fauvism and surrealism, he always painted in his own way. Chagall was considered the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists. For decades he was also respected as the world's foremost Jewish artist. In 1906 Chagall took drawing and painting lessons from the Russian portrait artist Judah Pen. That same year, Chagall moved to St. Petersburg to continue his studies at the Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting, where he briefly apprenticed with the artist and set designer Leon Bakst. Bakst, himself a devout Jew, is said to have encouraged Chagall to introduce Jewish imagery and themes into his work, a practice that was unpopular at the time. In 1910 Chagall arrived in Paris, where Cubism emerged as the leading movement. In Paris he exhibited in the Salon des Indépendants and in the Salon d'Automne. During this period he creates art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. In 1914 he had his first so show at Der Sturm in Berlin. In 1915 he married Bella Rosenfeld, after which they moved to Petersburg. He spent the war years in Soviet Belarus and became one of the country's leading artists and member of the modernist avant-garde. He founded the Vitebsk Arts College before returning to Paris in 1922. Bella died in 1944 and Chagall remarried Valentina Brodsky in 1952. From 1957 onwards, Chagall came regularly to Reims, where he worked with the Jacques Simon Workshop on a number of important projects in France and internationally: stained glass windows for the Metz Cathedral (1968), the United Nations in New York (1964) , Reims Cathedral (1974). In 1962, stained glass windows were installed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. He also painted on a large scale, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra (1964).