Chagall: Modern Master

Bringing together more than sixty paintings and a selection of works on paper from across the world, Chagall: Modern Master takes a fresh look at this compelling artist who created some of the most poetic and enduring images of the twentieth century. The exhibition will explore Chagall’s development from the ‘naïve’ folkloristic narratives in his early work, towards his unique style combining fauve, cubist, expressionist and suprematist influences while reflecting his native Jewish Russian culture.

Chagall: Modern Master will focus on the artist’s time in Paris before the First World War, his visit to Berlin and his exhibition there in 1914, and the years he spent in his native Russia around the time of the Revolution in 1917, all experiences which reinforced his highly personal visual language. The universal, timeless themes of these early works – including love, suffering and death – alongside self-portraits and depictions of the circus, music and peasants, recurred and formed the core of his art for the remainder of his long career.

• Artist Marc Chagall
• Exhibition Chagall: Modern Master
• Dimensions 280 x 240 mm
• Author Simonetta Fraquelli, Angela Lampe and Monica Bohm-Duchen
• ISBN ISBN 978 1 84976 027 0
• Paperback Yes
• Number of illustrations 130 colour
• Publisher Tate Publishing
• No of pages 200pp