The Chagall Collection at Coast Galleries

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1 C O A S T G A L L E R I E S

2 The Chagall Collection at Coast Galleries A new series of limited edition prints from paintings by Marc Chagall ( ) are now on exhibit for the first time in the West Coast at Coast Galleries in Big Sur and Pebble Beach. Published under the auspices of the Chagall family estate, the prints bear the embossed signature of the artist and the official seals of the publisher and the Chagall Estate. Although all of the paintings have appeared in numerous international art books, none of these images have been previously produced as limited edition prints. Born in Russia, Chagall immigrated to France in 1922 where he spent the next twenty years painting in Paris. He lived in the United States between 1941 and 1948 where I found there a feeling of youth, then returned to my real home in France until his death in 1985 at age 97. Pablo Picasso said, Chagall is the only painter who really understands what colour is and Henry Miller described him as a poet with the wings of a painter. But of color Chagall said, In life, just as on the artist s palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art the colour of love. Chagall is known for such dream-like images as a bride and groom floating in front of the Eiffel tower and surrounded by vibrantly colorful flowers, birds and animals. He drew upon his Jewish cultural heritage for many of his images, including synagogues, cemeteries, weddings and a fiddler on the roof, a character who was his uncle in real life. The collection also includes serigraphs reproduced from the stained glass windows Chagall created for the Hadassah Synagogue. At the 1962 dedication he spoke of the joy he felt in bringing my modest gift to the Jewish people, who have always dreamt of biblical love, of friendship and peace among all people; to that people who lived here, thousands of years ago, among other Semitic people. My hope is that I hereby extend my hand to seekers of culture, to poets and to artists among the neighboring people. As one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, Chagall s paintings are hung in every major museum and art collection in the world. Coast Galleries is grateful to the Chagall Estate for permitting the release of these limited edition prints and is honored to represent this historic collection. Gary Koeppel, Curator and Founder Coast Galleries 10. MARIES SOUS LE BALDAQUIN 2002 Coast Galleries. All rights reserved. Design by Adpartner, Monterey, California

3 1. LE GRAND BOUQUET 2. LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL

4 3. LES MARIES 4. LES BOUQUET ET LA TOUR EIFFEL

5 5. LA SIRENE AU PIN 6. PERSONNAGES FANTASTIQUES

6 7. FRUITS ET FLEURS DEVANT LA MER 8. ENTRE L HIVER ET LE PRINTEMPS

7 9. LA GERBE DE BLE 11. BOUQUET DES AMOUREUX VOLANTS

8 12. LES TROIS CIERGES 13. LA FARANDOLE D ETE

9 15. L EXODE 14. LE BOUQUET ILLUMINANT LE CIEL

10 30. REUBEN 34. LEVI 32. JUDAH 31. JOSEPH 35. DAN 33. ISSACHAR

11 38. BENJAMIN 36. NAPHTALI 40. ZEBULUN 39. ASHER 37. SIMEON 41. GAD

12 16. LE BOUQUET DE RENOCULES 17. LE BOUQUET NUPTIALE

13 18. LE CIRQUE 19. LE SONGE

14 20. LE SOLEIL SUR PARIS 21. AUTOUR D ELLE

15 22. LE BOUQUET DEVANT LA FENETRE 23. L ARTISTE ET SON MODELE

16 24. LE BOUQUET ET LE VILLAGE BLEU 25. LA PROCESSION DE NOEL

17 26. LONELINESS 27. MARIES AU VILLAGE

18 28. L OFFRANDE 29. AUTOPORTRAIT AVEC BOUQUET DE FLEURS

19 The Chagall Collection at Coast Galleries NO. TITLE MEDIUM PLATES PAPER SIZE IMAGE SIZE EDITION 1. LE GRAND BOUQUET Lithograph 20 18" x 13" 15" x 11" LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL (large) Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 32" x 24" Sold LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL (small, S-II) Lithograph 20 15" x 13" 12" x 11" LES MARIES Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 13" x 11" LES BOUQUET ET LA TOUR EIFFEL Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 14" x 11" LA SIRENE AU PIN Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 15" x 11" PERSONNAGES FANTASTIQUES Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 14" x 11" FRUITS ET FLEURS DEVANT LA MER Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 13" x 11" ENTRE L HIVER ET LE PRINTEMPS Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 14" x 11" LE GERBE DE BLE Lithograph 20 18" x 13" 15" x 11" MARIES SOUS LE BALDAQUIN (small, S-II) Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 13" x 11" 450 MARIES SOUS LE BALDAQUIN (large) Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" BOUQUET DES AMOUREUX VOLANTS Lithograph 20 25" x 19" 23" x 17" LES TROIS CIERGES (large, S-II) Lithograph 20 25" x 20" 22" x 17" 450 LES TROIS CIERGES (small) Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 13" x 10" Sold 13. LA FARANDOLE D ETE (large, S-II) Lithograph 20 25" x 20" 22" x 17" 450 LA FARANDOLE D ETE (small) Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 13" x 11" LE BOUQUET ILLUMINANT LE CIEL Lithograph 20 41" x 28" 31" x 25" L EXODE Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 37" x 20" LE BOUQUET DE RENOCULES Lithograph 20 41" x 28" 37" x 19" LE BOUQUET NUPTIALE Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 32" x 24" LE CIRQUE Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 32" x 24" LE SONGE Lithograph 20 41" x 28" 31" x 25" LE SOLEIL SUR PARIS Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 30" x 24" AUTOUR D ELLE Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 13" x 11" LE BOUQUET DEVANT LA FENETRE Lithograph 20 15" x 15" 13" x 11" Sold 23. L ARTISTE ET SON MODELE Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 14" x 11" LE BOUQUET ET LE VILLAGE BLEU Lithograph 20 15" x 15" 13" x 11" LA PROCESSION DE NOEL Lithograph 20 24" x 31" 20" x 28" LONELINESS Lithograph 20 32" x 24" 20" x 28" MARIES AU VILLAGE Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" L OFFRANDE Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" Sold 29. AUTOPORTRAIT AVEC BOUQUET DE FLEURS Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" REUBEN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" JOSEPH Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" JUDAH Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" ISSACHAR Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" LEVI Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" Sold 35. DAN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" NAPHTALI Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" SIMEON Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" BENJAMIN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" ASHER Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" ZEBULUN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" GAD Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500

20 $10.00 Marc Chagall [ ] Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussia to a poor Hassidic family. The eldest of nine children, he studied first in a heder before moving to a secular Russian school, where he began to display his artistic talent. With his mother s support, and despite his father s disapproval, Chagall pursued his interest in art, going to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study art with Leon Bakst. Influenced by contemporary Russian painting, Chagall s distinctive, child-like style, often centering on images from his childhood, began to emerge. From 1910 to 1914, Chagall lived in Paris, and there absorbed the works of the leading cubist, surrealist, and fauvist painters. It was during this period that Chagall painted some of his most famous paintings of the Jewish shtetl or village, and developed the features that became recognizable trademarks of his art. Strong and often bright colors portray the world with a dreamlike, non-realistic simplicity, and the fusion of fantasy, religion, and nostalgia infuses his work with a joyous quality. Animals, workmen, lovers, and musicians populate his figures; the fiddler on the roof recurs frequently, often hovering within another scene. Chagall s work of this period displays the influence of contemporary French painting, but his style remains independent of any one school of art. He exhibited regularly in the Salon des Independants. In 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Chagall held a one-man show in Berlin, exhibiting work dominated by Jewish images and personages. During the war, he resided in Russia, and in 1917, endorsing the revolution, he was appointed Commissar for Fine Arts invitebsk and then director of the newly established Free Academy of Art. The Bolshevik authorities, however, frowned upon Chagall s style of art as too modern, and in 1922, Chagall left Russia, settling in France one year later. He lived there permanently except for the years when, fleeing France during World War II, he resided in the United States. Chagall s horror over the Nazi rise to power is expressed in works depicting Jewish martyrs and Jewish refugees. In addition to images of the Hassidic world, Chagall s paintings are inspired by themes from the Bible. His fascination with the Bible culminated in a series of over 100 etchings illustrating the Bible, many of which incorporate elements from Jewish folklore and from religious life in Vitebsk. Chagall s other illustrations include works by Gogol, La Fontaine, Y. L. Peretz, and his autobiographical Ma Vie (1931: My Life 1960) and Chagall by Chagall (1979). Chagall painted with a variety of media, such as oils, watercolors, and gouaches. His work also expanded to other forms of art, including ceramics, mosaics, and stained glass. Among his most famous building decorations are the ceiling of the Opera House in Paris, murals at the New York Metropolitan Opera, a glass window at the United Nations, and decorations at the Vatican. Israel, which Chagall first visited in 1931 for the opening of the Tel Aviv Art Museum, is likewise endowed with some of Chagall s work, most notably the twelve stained glass windows at Hadassah Hospital and wall decorations at the Knesset. Chagall received many prizes and much recognition for his work. He was also one of very few artists to exhibit work at the Louvre in their lifetime. COAST GALLERIES 17-Mile Drive at The Lodge Post Office Box 1501 Pebble Beach, California Highway One Big Sur, California