Mirko Basaldella
Lion of Damascus
1954
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Marc Chagall
1911
Marc Chagall’s early work is characterized by a neo-primitive style derived primarily from Russian icons and folk art. When he moved from Russia to Paris in the summer of 1910, the artist took with him several of these paintings depicting the life and customs of his native Vitebsk. During the next year he reworked them and also painted new compositions with similar motifs, infused with nostalgia for his homeland, but now adapted according to techniques and concepts he acquired from exposure to current French art. Nondescriptive, saturated color is used in Rain in combination with assertive areas of white and black to produce a highly ornamental and vivid surface. The breaking up of some areas of the composition into shaded planes, for example the roof of the house and the left foreground, has its source in Cubism, though this device is handled somewhat randomly.
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Artist | Marc Chagall |
Original Title | La Pluie |
Date | 1911 |
Medium | Oil (and charcoal?) on canvas |
Dimensions | 86.7 x 108 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 63 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Painting |
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Mirko Basaldella
1954
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Mark di Suvero
1961–62
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Heinz Mack
1963
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Chuck Close
2003
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