Marc Chagall was a prolific Russian artist whose bright, whimsical and iconic works catapulted his name into the forefront of the art world. Heralding his Jewish background, Chagall's compositions ranged from references to the Hebrew Bible to mid-summer beachside romances along the French Riviera.
Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910, and lived and worked there intermittently throughout his life, becoming a French citizen in 1937. His love affair with the city was well documented throughout his career, and his poetic mastery of dreams, memories and folklore dominated both his painting and his lifelong commitment to original printmaking.
Chagall was 63 when he first studied the technique of colour lithography, eventually producing close to a thousand lithographic editions over 30 years — a medium he chose for the almost unlimited painterly freedom it offered in fabricating his mystical world of lovers, musicians and artists.
