A la Russie
Who: Marc Chagall
When: 1911
Where: Centre Pompidou
Paris - France
It was at the La Ruche studio complex in Paris that Marc Chagall painted À la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres [To Russia, Donkeys and Others] in 1911. The work evidences the painter’s attachment to his origins in its many explicit references to Russian Jewish culture. Particularly interested in the Torah, Chagall translates his textual sources into metaphorical visions, lyrical and poetic, rendered in vibrant colours. Fascinated by the combination of folkloric imagery with an innovative Cubist style, Guillaume Apollinaire showed this picture at the Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1914.
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A la Russie
Who: Marc Chagall
When: 1911
Where: Centre Pompidou
Paris - France
It was at the La Ruche studio complex in Paris that Marc Chagall painted À la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres [To Russia, Donkeys and Others] in 1911. The work evidences the painter’s attachment to his origins in its many explicit references to Russian Jewish culture. Particularly interested in the Torah, Chagall translates his textual sources into metaphorical visions, lyrical and poetic, rendered in vibrant colours. Fascinated by the combination of folkloric imagery with an innovative Cubist style, Guillaume Apollinaire showed this picture at the Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1914.
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