Marc Chagall--one of the greatest of all twentieth-century painters--died in 1985, during a major exhibition of his work, mounted jointly by the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition had as one of its main features quotations taken from Chagall's autobiography, My Life. Originally published in English in 1965, Chagall's My Life offers a lyrical and evocative account of the author's early life and tremendous insight into the shaping of his creative genius. His literary style--playful and witty arabesques of fantasy that remind us of his visual imagery--accentuates his descriptions of his childhood spent in the provincial Russian town of Witebsk, his early adventures, and his first meeting with Bella, the woman who later became his wife. He depicts his struggle as an artist in the face of poverty and opposition, followed by the fruitful years in Paris where he found fulfillment and recognition. Chagall ends his account by describing his return to Russia at the outbreak of World War I and the despair that finally induced him to return to France with Bella and their young daughter in 1922.

My Life

MARC CHAGALL

Oxford University Press

"It is unusual for a painter to display in writing what are recognizably the same characteristics that appear in his pictures, and this is what Chagall succeeds, most delightfully, in doing."--The Atlantic My Life was written in Moscow in 1921-1922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all autobiographies. The text is accompanied by twenty plates which Chagall prepared especially to illustrate his life story. Together, the words and pictures paint an incomparable portrait of one of the greatest painters of this century, and of the now vanished milieu which inspired him.

Marc Chagall: My Life

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Da Capo Press

1986 Crown Publishers, Inc., New York. 1st American edition, 13 x 10 inches, 244 pages, 150 black & white plus color illustrations. Hardcover cloth in pictorial dust jacket and acetate. Book and jacket have light wear on edges. Volume VI: 1980-1985, 226 pages. English. Hardcover with over 106 Illustrations. Published in 1986 by Maeght. The text is in English.

Chagall Lithographs VI

Crown

Essays by major critics combine with reproductions and the words of the artist himself to provide a retrospective of more than eighty years of Marc Chagall's work

Chagall in Jerusalem

Leon Amiel Publisher

Marc Chagall: Paintings

Wittenborn Art Books

Marc Chagall: Biblical Narratives

Kenneth Bendiner

Susan Tumarkin Goodman

Haggerty Museum of Art

Ma vie

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Stock

Marc Chagall 1887-1985 (in French)

Ministere de la Culture

Ce très joli petit livre se propose de donner à lire les principaux épisodes de l'Ancien Testament magnifiquement illustrés de dessins, gravures, peintures de Marc Chagall.

L'Ancien Testament (La bibliothèque illustrée)

DU CHï¿½NE

Marc Chagall: Hadassah, de l'esquisse au vitrail

Adam Biro / Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme

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