Chagall: A Biography

Title: Chagall: A Biography Author: Jackie Wullschläger ISBN: 9780375414558 Publisher: Knopf Published: 2008 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Q 1640215 Publisher Description: "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is." As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. Yet behind this triumph lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, frustration, lost love, exile--and above all the miracle of survival. Born into near poverty in Russia in 1887, the son of a Jewish herring merchant, Chagall fled the repressive "potato-colored" tsarist empire in 1911 for Paris. There he worked alongsid