This beautifully designed volume--the first comprehensive survey of Chagall's work since 1985--organizes the artist's oeuvre into four full-color plate sections, each accompanied by introductory texts and entries on key artworks and themes.
It's hardly a catalogue raisonné, but there's plenty to enjoy here. After about 20 pages of introductory essays, we get another 35 or so that sketch Chagall's life, from his early career until his death in 1985. The next 160 pages, roughly, reprint paintings from many parts of his career. Each page is self-contained, either a good-sized, gorgeous reproduction or a short essay on the painting across the fold. Printing is impeccable...
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