Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel

Preferred Title: 
Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel
Image View: 
Overall view
Creator: 
Marc Chagall (Belorussian painter, 1887-1985)
Location: 
repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 1988-67
Location Note: 
Place Georges-Pompidou
GPS: 
+48.860653+2.352411
Date: 
1938-1939 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
painting
Material: 
oil paint on linen canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
150 cm (height) x 136.5 cm (width)
Description: 
Chagall's paintings of the 1920s, such as The Dream (1927), contain a strong element of fantasy already saluted as 'surnaturel' in 1914 by the poet Apollinaire. Chagall was invited to join the Surrealists, but he refused to do so, wary of their deliberate involvement with the subconscious mind. Nevertheless, a Surrealistic strain of dreamlike imagery can be said to run through all of his works, including Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel. His work is noted for its consistent use of folkloric imagery, evocations of Russian Jewish village life, and its sweetness of color. Chagall took French citizenship in 1937, but, with his wife Bella, he was forced to seek asylum in the USA in 1941 after he had been briefly imprisoned under the Vichy government in Marseille. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
7A1-CM-LMTE-A01
Rights: 
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