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The Yellow Background

Name: The Yellow Background
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 79842

Marc Chagall

$2,850

Russian (1887–1985)

Date: 1969
Lithograph on Arches
Edition of 100 A.P.
Size: 28.5 x 21.5 in. (72.39 x 54.61 cm)
Frame Size: 35 x 28 inches
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Publisher: Galerie Maeght
Reference: Sorlier 602

$2,850

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about The Yellow Background

A bright yellow composition by Marc Chagall featuring a floating white head with red hair, an upside-down pair of green trousers, and a bright red signature by the artist in the plate.

This aptly-named lithograph was originally designed to be a poster for an exhibition of the artist’s work at Galerie Maeght in Paris, a gallery that represented the artist as well as distributed his and many other artists’ lithographs in the Derriere le Miroir.

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About The Artist: Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin, who was born in Belarus, at that time part of the Russian Empire. He is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal ; his name was rendered in the Russian language as Mark Zakharovich Shagalov. Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, Belarus, the eldest of nine children in the close-knit...

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About The Medium: Lithograph

A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.

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