Marc Chagall – The Green Bird
Marc Chagall, The Green Bird, is an original vintage lithograph poster made in 1962. This poster was created for a one-man Chagall exhibition at the Maeght Gallery in Paris. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Maeght. Sorlier 40.
Chagall’s style has been described as a hybrid of Cubism, Fauvism, and Symbolism, and his supernatural subjects are thought to have significantly influenced the Surrealists. Though he actively engaged in the Parisian artistic community, art for Chagall was first and foremost a means of personal expression. He preferred to be considered separately from other artists, his imagery and allegory uniquely his own.
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.
| Title | The Green Bird |
|---|---|
| Alt. Title | l’Oiseau Vert |
| Medium | Lithograph Poster |
| Year | 1962 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | Sorlier 40 |
| Size | 27.5 x 21 (in) 70 x 53 (cm) |
| Price | Price on Request |
Description
Marc Chagall, The Green Bird, is an original vintage lithograph poster made in 1962. This poster was created for a one-man Chagall exhibition at the Maeght Gallery in Paris. Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Maeght. Sorlier 40.
Chagall’s style has been described as a hybrid of Cubism, Fauvism, and Symbolism, and his supernatural subjects are thought to have significantly influenced the Surrealists. Though he actively engaged in the Parisian artistic community, art for Chagall was first and foremost a means of personal expression. He preferred to be considered separately from other artists, his imagery and allegory uniquely his own.
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.
Additional information
| Title | The Green Bird |
|---|---|
| Alt. Title | l’Oiseau Vert |
| Medium | Lithograph Poster |
| Year | 1962 |
| Catalogue Raisonné | Sorlier 40 |
| Size | 27.5 x 21 (in) 70 x 53 (cm) |
| Price | Price on Request |
