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'When Matisse dies, Chagall may be the merely painter left who is aware what color quite is.' Picasso acknowledged this within the Fifties, while he and Chagall have been eminent neighbours dwelling in splendour at the Cote d'Azur. yet at the back of Chagall's function as a pioneer of recent artwork lay fight, heartbreak, bitterness, misplaced love, exile, and the miracle of survival. Born the son of a Russian Jewish herring service provider, Chagall fled the repressive "potato-coloured" czarist empire in 1911 to strengthen his genius in Paris, residing along Modigliani and Leger in los angeles Ruche, the artist's colony the place "you both died or got here out famous". via warfare and revolution in Bolshevik Russia, Weimar Berlin, occupied France and Forties manhattan, he gave shape to his desires, longings and stories in work that are one of the such a lot humane and cheerful of the twentieth century. Drawing on a variety of interviews with the artist's relations, acquaintances, buyers, creditors, and illustrated with 200 work, drawings and pictures, many formerly unseen, this elegantly written biography provides for the 1st time a whole and real account of Chagall the fellow and the artist - and of a existence as extreme, theatrical and haunting as his work.

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