Auktion 277 : Marc Chagall - Forty Paintings 17.06.2022

Biographical notes The oldest of nine children, Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal in Vitebsk in modern­ day Belarus on 7 July 1887. His parents were poor working-class Orthodox Jews. After the cheder, the Jewish elementary school, he attended the local public school, took singing and violin lessons regularly and began to draw. In 1906 he graduated from school and became a student in the studio of painter Yehuda Pen. In the winter of 1906 he settled in St. Petersburg, and in 1908 began to study at the Imperial School for the Protection of the Fine Arts under Leon Bakst, among others, who introduced him to the art of French painters such as Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin or Vincent van Gogh. ▲ ◀ Vitebsk at the turn of the century ▲ In the back yard of his parents’ home in Vitebsk. Yehuda Pen wearing a cap Marc Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld, ca. 1910