Song of Songs II - Marc Chagall
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A dreamlike lithograph by Marc Chagall, featuring floating figures and symbolic motifs rendered in soft pinks and delicate calligraphic lines.
Marc Chagall created this lithograph as part of his series interpreting the biblical Song of Songs. The work displays his characteristic approach to narrative, where figures float above a townscape in a dreamlike state. The central composition features a reclining nude figure suspended in a pink-hued atmosphere, surrounded by symbolic elements including an angel playing a harp and various animal forms.
Chagall employs a calligraphic line quality to define the figures, allowing the forms to merge with the soft, textured background. The colour palette is dominated by shades of rose, mauve, and pale pink, punctuated by the yellow of the crescent moon and the blue of the angel's robe. The townscape at the bottom of the frame provides a grounding element, yet it remains stylised and simplified, typical of the artist's rejection of strict perspective.
This piece reflects the artist's preoccupation with themes of love, spirituality, and memory. By blending religious text with personal iconography, Chagall creates a visual language that feels both ancient and contemporary. The lithographic process allows for a delicate layering of colour, giving the print a soft, almost watercolour-like appearance. The composition avoids rigid structure, favouring a fluid arrangement that guides the eye across the various symbolic motifs. The inclusion of the rooster and the crescent moon are recurring elements in Chagall's work, often representing the cycle of time and the connection between the earthly and the divine. This print captures the lyrical quality of the original biblical poem through a visual medium, focusing on the emotional resonance of the text rather than a literal depiction of the narrative events.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
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Song of Songs II - Marc Chagall
Artist Biography
Marc Chagall
He was born Moishe Shagal in 1887, in the Pale of Settlement, the restricted zone where Jews were permitted to live in the Russian Empire. His father worked at a herring warehouse. The family was devout Hasidic. After studying in St Petersburg, he went to Paris in 1911 and immersed himself in the Fauvists and Cubists, absorbing their formal innovations without abandoning the narrative imagery of his childhood. The colour and the dreamlike floating figures were already there in Vitebsk. Paris gave him the structure.
He met Bella Rosenfeld, the daughter of a wealthy Vitebsk jeweller, and married her in 1915. She became his primary subject for the next three decades. The flying lovers that recur across his work, gravity-defying couples suspended above rooftops and villages, began with Bella. When she died of a streptococcal infection in New York in September 1944, penicillin existed but the entire supply was reserved for soldiers. He stopped painting for nine months. He continued to paint her memory for the remaining forty-one years of his life.
Picasso once said that when Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is. The friendship ended at a dinner at Chagall's home in 1964. Picasso asked when he was going back to Russia. Chagall replied: after you, I hear you are greatly loved there but not your work. They never spoke again.
His late stained glass commissions are among the strongest work of his final decades: the Peace Window at the United Nations, the twelve windows representing the Tribes of Israel at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Jerusalem, and windows at Metz Cathedral. In 1964, Andre Malraux commissioned him to paint the ceiling of the Paris Opera, a decision that provoked fury from critics who objected to a Russian-born Jewish artist working inside a French Baroque monument. He lived to ninety-seven.
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