Marc CHAGALL
1887–1985, Belarus/France
Also known as: MCH
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Graphics, signed "Mark Chagall," Figure with hat, title "Peintre au chapeau", size approx 43x31 cm, numbered 48/50. The painting was submitted to a major auction house in October 2015 for sales. The auction house received a notice indicating that the painting was fake signed. After seizing the painting was examined and was found to be a forgery.
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Offset color printing, composition, signed "Marc Chagall", size 71x55 cm, numbered 21/200. The painting was for sale at an online auction house in Stockholm, Sweden. The staff contacted police when they suspected that it was a forgery. The investigation concluded that there is a reproduction after an oil painting, but there is no record that it has been published in a numbered and signed edition. Court decision: Examination and expert judgment showed that the painting was a forgery. The painting is forfeited.
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Mixed media on board, composition with figures, signed "Marc Chagall", approx. 40x30 cm. Ostensibly depicting a genuine painting by the renowned Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Counterfeit copies produced in Barcelona, Spain. An art dealer in Denmark bought the painting and then tried to sell it as a genuine Chagall painting for 800,000 Danish kroner. The painting was seized by police in connection with another seizure of a Picasso Drawing art dealer who had forged and then tried to sell through a major auction house in London see Picasso PHM4589-02
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Mixed media on board, composition with figures, signed "Marc Chagall", approx. 40x30 cm. Ostensibly depicting a genuine painting by the renowned Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Counterfeit copies produced in Barcelona, Spain. A Swedish citizen, along with several associates, during the late 1970's and the early 1980's, visited Barcelona in Spain and by a forger named "Miguel Canals" and his assistants purchased a large number of counterfeit paintings by both foreign and Swedish masters such as Boudin, Corot, Degas, Picasso, Renoir, Chagall and Swedish masters such as Axel Olson, Gustaf Rydberg, Bengt Lindström, Jenny Nyström Olaf Krumlinde, etc. The counterfeits has been very skilfully done. So good that they even misled art experts. For an ordinary person seems these fakes as genuine. The counterfeit copies were transported by a Swedish male courier and his wife. An unknown number of counterfeits has since been sold in Sweden, Denmark, and probably also in Germany. An identical Chagall-counterfeiting was Seized by Police in Copenhagen in connection with another seizure of Picasso drawing that the art dealer had forged and then tried to sell through a major auction house in London see Picasso PHM4589-02
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Acrylic on cardboard, composition with figures, signed Chagall, 33x24 cm. This painting has no known originals by Marc Chagall as a model. The motif is made up and painted in a style ostensibly trying to emulate Marc Chagall in purpose of misleading the market in the belief that this is a genuine original. Court: The painting is not done by Marc Chagall nor signed by him. It is a complete forgery! The painting is part of a major fraud seizures of counterfeit art in Sweden known as ”The Society of Art Friends”: Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a tip off from the police reconnaissance force in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known businessmen with considerable incomes. League had good help from educated art experts who have written certificate of authenticity to many of the fake paintings, often at very small remuneration. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text “The Society of Art Friends”.
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Acrylic on cardboard, composition with figures, signed Chagall, 23x18 cm. This painting has no known originals by Marc Chagall as a model. The motif is made up and painted in a style ostensibly trying to emulate Marc Chagall in purpose of misleading the market in the belief that this is a genuine original. Court: The painting is not done by Marc Chagall nor signed by him. It is a complete forgery! The painting is part of a major fraud seizures of counterfeit art in Sweden known as ”The Society of Art Friends”: Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a tip off from the police reconnaissance force in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known businessmen with considerable incomes. League had good help from educated art experts who have written certificate of authenticity to many of the fake paintings, often at very small remuneration. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text “The Society of Art Friends”.
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Acrylic on cardboard, composition with figures, signed Chagall, 23x17 cm. This painting has no known originals by Marc Chagall as a model. The motif is made up and painted in a style ostensibly trying to emulate Marc Chagall in purpose of misleading the market in the belief that this is a genuine original. Court: The painting is not done by Marc Chagall nor signed by him. It is a complete forgery! The painting is part of a major fraud seizures of counterfeit art in Sweden known as ”The Society of Art Friends”: Three men, aged 30, 37, and 40 years old, were caught in Stockholm, Sweden after a tip off from the police reconnaissance force in Ängelholm, Sweden. Shortly afterwards, another two men were caught. In total, 48 house searches were made through out the nation from which 83 forged paintings were confiscated. Forged art had already been sold for millions of Swedish crowns. Victims of the gang were well known businessmen with considerable incomes. League had good help from educated art experts who have written certificate of authenticity to many of the fake paintings, often at very small remuneration. On a door to a flat in Stockholm the men had displayed a sign with the text “The Society of Art Friends”.
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Not registered lithography, composition, signed in the plate and stamp signed, numbered 2458/5000, size 62x47 cm. The graphics were for sale at an online auction house in Stockholm January 2014. Police were called when this lithograph was not documented as a work of Chagall. It turned out that the submitter had sold the same graphics with the same motif on four separate occasions in 2013 with different numbering at a total edition of 5000. The selling price had been around 500 euros (approx. 4.500 SEK). The signature stamp had probably been placed on to beautify and give the graphics a greater credibility.
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5 pcs. Chagall litho counterfeits in a large-scale art forgery case: In 2004 a large-scale art forgery case was exposed during the Salvador Dali centenary exhibition at the Wanha Satama fair centre in Helsinki. The art dealer concerned had forged and sold hundred of Dali graphics as well as graphics of Chagall and some other internationally known artists.
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Artco Scandinavia -yrityksen omistajan kesäkuussa 2004 järjestämässä Salvador Dalín 100-vuotisjuhlanäyttelyssä Helsingin Wanhassa Satamassa epäiltiin olevan taideväärennöksiä. Havainnon teki ensimmäisenä Ateneumin asiantuntija, joka kiinnitti huomiota painotöiksi paljastuneisiin grafiikantöihin. Poliisi takavarikoi kaikki näyttelyn teokset sekä lisää taidetta Artco Scandinavian varastotiloista. Näyttelyn toiminnassa olivat mukana myös omistajan poika esittelijänä ja myyjänä, entinen vaimo lipunmyyjänä sekä eräs mieshenkilö järjestäjänä ja esittelijänä. Asianosaisina jutussa ovat yrityksen omistajalle teoksia myyneet ja lainanneet kaksi taidekauppiasta, yrityksen omistajan kumppani ja avustajana toiminut mies, Dalín litografioita ostanut ja niitä näyttelyyn lainannut mieshenkilö, teoksia kehystänyt omistajan toinen poika sekä asiantuntija Kuvasto ry:stä. Lisäksi todistajana oli Dalí-näyttelyyn mm. teosten hintalappuja tehnyt mies. Dalín töinä esitetyt teokset toimitettiin tutkittavaksi Gala- Salvador Dalí -säätiöön Espanjaan. 145 teoksesta 95 vedosta todettiin olevan peräisin aidoiksi katsottavista painossarjoista ja 50 vedosta signeeraamatuiksi jäljennöksiksi. Lopuista 248 työstä 184 todettiin olevan peräisin epäaidoksi katsotuista painossarjoista ja 64 työssä signeeraus oli väärennetty. Näyttelyssä oli esillä myös muiden tunnettujen taiteilijoiden töiksi väitettyjä teoksia: Rembrantin (2 kpl), Braquen (8 kpl), Chagallin (16 kpl), Légerin (6 kpl) ja Mirón (11 kpl). Lisäksi Pablo Picasson teoksiksi esitetyistä kymmenestä työstä lähetettiin lausuntopyyntö Picasso Administrationille Pariisiin. Osa paljastui väärennöksiksi. Teos oli myynnissä hinnalla 5 400 €.
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Folder with 8 (eight) unframed lithographic sheets in one package. composition with figures and animals, signed "Marc Chagall", numbered 14/50. Ostensibly depicting genuine paintings made by Marc Chagall. The folder was part of a major seizure of counterfeit lithographs by the same forger. After the investigation became all lithographs judged as counterfeit.
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Folder with 8 (eight) unframed lithographic sheets in one package. composition with figures and animals, "La Nymphe bleu", signed "Marc Chagall", numbered 30/50. Ostensibly depicting genuine paintings made by Marc Chagall. The folder was part of a major seizure of counterfeit lithographs by the same forger. After investigation, all lithographs judged as counterfeit.
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Folder with 8 (eight) unframed lithographic sheets in one package. composition with figures and animals, "La Nymphe bleu", signed "Marc Chagall", numbered 20/50. Ostensibly depicting genuine paintings made by Marc Chagall. The folder was part of a major seizure of counterfeit lithographs by the same forger. After investigation, all lithographs judged as counterfeit.
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Marc Chagall (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin, who was born in Belarus, at that time part of the Russian Empire. He is associated with the modern movements after impressionism.
Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal ; his name was rendered in the Russian language as Mark Zakharovich Shagalov. Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, Belarus, the eldest of nine children in the close-knit Jewish family led by his father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. Currently the Shagal's house on Pokrovskaya Street in Vitebsk is restored as part of the Marc Chagall's Museum.
After he began studying painting in 1906 under famed local artist Yehuda Pen, Chagall moved to St. Petersburg some months later, in 1907. There he joined the school of the "Society of Art Supporters" and studied under Nikolai Roerich, encountering artists of every school and style. From 1908-1910 Chagall studied under Leon Bakst at the Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting.
This was a difficult period for Chagall; at the time, Jewish residents were only allowed to live in St. Petersburg with a permit, and the artist was jailed for a brief period for an infringement of this restriction. Despite this, Chagall remained in St. Petersburg until 1910, and regularly visited his home town where, in 1909, he met his future wife, Bella Rosenfeld.
After gaining a reputation as an artist, Chagall left St. Petersburg to settle in Paris to be near the burgeoning art community in the Montparnasse district, where he developed friendships with such avant-garde luminaries as Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, and Fernand Léger. In 1914, he returned to Vitebsk and, a year later, married his fiancée, Bella. While in Russia, World War I erupted and, in 1916, the Chagalls had their first child, a daughter they named Ida.
Chagall became an active participant in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Although the Soviet Ministry of Culture made him a Commissar of Art for the Vitebsk region, where he founded Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art and an art school, he did not fare well politically under the Soviet system. He and his wife moved to Moscow in 1920 and then back to Paris three years later, in 1923. During this period, Chagall published his memoirs in Yiddish, which were originally written in Russian and translated into French by Bella. He also wrote articles, poetry and memoirs in Yiddish, published mainly in newspapers (and only posthumously in book-form). Chagall became a French citizen in 1937.
With the Nazi occupation of France during World War II and the deportation of Jews, the Chagalls fled Paris, seeking asylum at Villa Air-Bel in Marseille, where the American journalist Varian Fry assisted in their escape from France through Spain and Portugal. In 1941, the Chagalls settled in the United States of America.
On September 2, 1944, Chagall's beloved Bella, the constant subject of his paintings and companion of his life, died from an illness. Two years later, in 1946, he returned to Europe. By 1949 he was working in Provence, in the South of France. That same year, Chagall took part in the creation of the MRAP anti-racist NGO.
The depression Chagall experienced following Bella's death was alleviated when he met Virginia Haggard, with whom he had a son, David (McNeil). At this time, Chagall received financial aid from theatrical commissions and, in his painting, rediscovered a free and vibrant use of color. His works of this period are dedicated to love and the joy of life, with curved, sinuous figures. He also began to work in sculpture, ceramics, and stained glass.
In 1950 he also began experimenting with graphic mediums. After meeting with Fernand Mourlot, he often visited Mourlot Studios where he eventually produced close to a thousand different lithographic editions. With the assistance of Charles Sorlier, a master printer working at Mourlot, he spent 30 years exploring the graphic medium that most lends itself to color representation. Charles Sorlier also became one of his closest friends, assistant and counsel until the day of his death.
Chagall remarried in 1952 to Valentina Brodsky (whom he called "Vava"). He traveled several times to Greece and in 1957 visited Israel. In 1960, he created stained glass windows for the synagogue of the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem and, in 1966, wall art for the new parliament being constructed in that city.
During the Six Day War the hospital came under severe attack, placing Chagall's work under threat. In response to this, Chagall wrote a letter from France stating "I am not worried about the windows, only about the safety of Israel. Let Israel be safe and I will make you lovelier windows.". Luckily, most of the panels were removed in time, with only one sustaining severe damage. In 1973, Israel issued a series of stamps featuring the Chagall windows, which depict Twelve tribes, such as Levi, pictured here.
At the age of 97, Chagall died in Saint-Paul de Vence on the French Riviera on March 28, 1985 and was buried at the local cemetery. His plot is located in the most westerly aisle upon entering the cemetery.
Source: http://rogallery.com
Marc Chagall, en av 1900-talets största konstnärer, föddes 1887 i Vitebsk i Vitryssland och dog 98 år gammal,1985 i Saint-Paul-de-Vence i Frankrike. Han började på konstskola i Sankt Petersburg 1907 och studerar året därpå för Leon Bakst. Efter skolans slut, 1910 skyndar sig Chagall till Paris. - Paris, utan vars luft mänskligheten skulle kvävas. - Tjugofem år gammal gör han där sina första stora mästerverk. "Ryssland, åsnor och andra", " Hyllning till Apollinaire", " Jag och byn" Lär känna Léger, Modigliani, Laurens, Brancusi, Cendrars, Apollinaire, Duchamp Villon m fl 1914 reser han via en utställning i Berlin tillbaka till Ryssland och Vitebsk där Bella och kärleken väntar. Första världskriget bryter ut och förhindrar honom att resa tillbaka till Paris. Han gifter sig med Bella 1915 och året därpå föds lilla Ida. Chagall blir indragen i revolutionen och blir kommissarie för bildkonst. Först 1922 kan han tillsammans med sin familj resa ut igen via Litauen och Berlin .
Han återkommer till Paris 1923 och får i uppdrag att illustrera Gogols "Döda själar", Bibeln och La Fontaines Fabler. Från 1924 -25 gör han 107 etsningar. Han arbetar och reser mycket bl a till Palestina och Jerusalem. År 1937 får han franskt medborgarskap. År 1941, i sista stund får han en inbjudan av Museum of Modern Art i New York och samma dag som Tyskland anfaller Ryssland går Marc och Bella ombord på en båt i Lissabon med destination New York.
Tragiska omständigheter gör att Bella dör i USA 1944 och Marc som är utom sig av sorg är helt oförmögen att arbeta under nästan ett år. Han reser tillbaka till Frankrike först 1948 och slår sig ned i Provence. Han lär känna Aimé Maeght som blir hans förläggare i Frankrike. Han återser Matisse och Picasso och träffar så småningom Valentina (Vava) som han gifter sig med 1953. Kärleken ger honom nu ny kraft. Han gör sina första försök att arbeta med glas något som skulle utvecklas till fulländning i flera storslagna verk under de kommande åren, glasmålningar i Katedralen i Reims, Metropolitan operan, "Freden" en hyllning till Dag Hammarskjöld i FN byggnaden i New York och "De fyra årstiderna" på National Square i Chicago för att bara nämna några.
Source: Art Signature Dictionary
La Thora (Executed in 1970)
”la Baie Des Anges” From The Serie ”nice Et La Côte D’azur” (Executed in 1962)
Bouquet à La Lune (1947-49)
Scène Biblique
Les Amoureux Dans La Nuit D'hiver
Le Prophète (1974)
La Bible: 3 Plates (1958)
Daphnis Et Chloé: Le Verger De Philétas (1960)
Carmen (1967)
Le Rêve De Chagall Sur Vitebsk (Executed in 1950-53)
L'offrande Au Peintre
Le Chandelier
Le Cantique Des Cantiques (Executed in 1975)
L'ange Du Jugement (Executed in 1974)
La Lutte De Jacob Et De L'ange (Executed in 1967)
Le Piège (Executed in 1922)
Art Flowers
Deux ânes Verts
Ile Saint-louis, 1959 (1959)
Sirène Au Pin (1967)
Cheval Brun (1952)
La Tortue Et Les Deux Canards (Executed ca.1927)
Le Cirque (1967)
Ur La Bible (1958)
Rébecca Au Puits
”sirène Et Poisson” From Nice Et La Côte D’azur
”l’aloutte Et Ses Petits Avec Le Maitre D’un Champs” From ”les Fables De La Fontaine (51)
(82) Homère, L’odyssée I And Ii” In Two Volumes
La Siréne", From "estampes" (robert Rey) (1950)
Couple En Ochre (1952)
Nu Devant La Fenêtre (1953-54)
Paysage Bleu (1958)
Les Coquelicots" (the Poppies) (1949)
Saint-jean-cap-ferrat (1952)
Nuit D'ete" (summer's Night) (Executed ca. 1973)
La Baie Des Anges (Executed 1962)
La Lutte De Jacob Et De L Ange (Executed 1967)
Le Cirque (Executed 1967)
Mein Leben, Pl. 25: Die Liebenden (Executed 1922)
La Famille D'arlequin
Les Coquelicots
Chapter Heading From "twelve Sketches Of Windows For Jerusalem", Edition Of 50, M 107, 1964, Published By A. C. Mazo (1964)
Le Ciel Bleu (Executed 1964)
Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall (1977)
La Baie Des Anges (1962)
Les Ames Mortes: Le Village De Pliouchkine (1948)
Les Trois Acrobates (1957)
Le Peintre Devant Le Tableau (1975-76)
Roméo Et Juliette (1964)
Les Adolescents
Le Temple
Carmen
Siréne Au Poète
La Femme De Potiphar No 21 From The Bible Suite
Le Cantique Des Cantiques
After By Charles Sorlier. Avenue De La Victoire à Nice. Plate Vi From Nice Et La Côte D’azur
Le Jeu
L’atelier Bleu
Sirène Au Pin. Plate X From Nice Et La Côte D’azur. After By Charles Sorlier.
La Baie Des Anges Au Bouquet De Roses. Plate V From “nice Et La Côte D’azur. After By Charles Sorlier.
Le Cantique Des Cantiques" (1975)
La Tour Eiffel à L'âne (1954)
Les Coquelicots (1949)
Die Zauberflöte
Le Jeu (1966)
La Sainte Famille (1970)
Roméo Et Juliette (1964)
Ur La Bible, (lit: Cramer Books 30) (1958)
Les Coquelicots (1949)
La Baie Des Anges (1962)
Les Coq, (lit: Sorlier (cs) 5) (1952)
Glasmalereien Für Jerusalem, The Complete Book With Colour Lithographs And Other Illustrations. (1962)
Nature Morte Aux Fleurs, (lit: Mourlot 922) (1978)
La Grande Corniche, (lit: Mourlot 485a) (1967)
Les Trois Acrobates, (lit:mourlot 169) (1957)
Les Coquelicots
Le Soir D’été (1968, Mourlot 545)
Carmen, After By Charles Sorlier
Les Coquelicots (1949)
Le Rabin
Romeo Et Juliette (1964)
La Table (1955)
