Marc Chagall, Homage to Gogol, 1917, Gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper Chagall’s outgoing, imaginative approach to his art celebrates subjective and autobiographical experiences in an overtly narrative and theatrical manner. It comes as no surprise that he worked regularly as a stage designer. Representations of archetypal Jewish characters such as folk musicians, jesters and masters of ceremonies, Torah scribes and wedding dancers symbolize music, drama, literature and dance. With his narrative skills and his unorthodox use of structure combined with his audacious use of colour and special poetic sensibility, Chagall created some of the icons of classic modern painting…

Marc Chagall, Homage to Gogol, 1917, Gouache, watercolour and pencil on paper

Chagall’s outgoing, imaginative approach to his art celebrates subjective and autobiographical experiences in an overtly narrative and theatrical manner. It comes as no surprise that he worked regularly as a stage designer. Representations of archetypal Jewish characters such as folk musicians, jesters and masters of ceremonies, Torah scribes and wedding dancers symbolize music, drama, literature and dance. With his narrative skills and his unorthodox use of structure combined with his audacious use of colour and special poetic sensibility, Chagall created some of the icons of classic modern painting…

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