Mr. Straiges's set fuses socialist realism with Chagall-accented surrealism to more persuasive (and relevant) effect.
Here the image of enchanted genius and Chagall's actual achievement begin to slip apart.
Vivid personalities, constant upheavals and Chagall's scarcely believable blunders make for barely a dull page.
The phrase went round Paris, surrealism acquired an origin myth and Chagall's reputation was made.
For once Chagall had no trouble perceiving the fraud, and destroyed the forgery with his own hands.
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They found seven paintings and twenty-one drawings counterfeited by Malskat, including forgeries of Matisse, Degas, Chagall, and Beckmann.
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Bella's sudden death in 1944 left Chagall, who had no English, quite helpless.
Picasso, who did not like Chagall's work, teased him about his high prices.
Without claiming to explain what probably nobody can explain, Ms Wullschlager records Chagall's artistic slide into repetition, pastiche and sentimentality.
Chagall has her flying above his village, or stetl, in "Over the Town" but this time he is carrying her like Superman.
But she cannot be apportioned with all the credit for Chagall's success.
Other revealing juxtapositions here display works by Arpita Singh (b. 1937) and Marc Chagall, as well as Bikash Bhattacharjee (1940-2006) and Andrew Wyeth.
One Frankfurt dealer made the mistake of showing a Malskat to Chagall, who was notoriously unable to detect counterfeits of his own work.
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Vaclav Havel, Dame Ninette de Valois, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore and Sir Isaiah Berlin are among the recipients of the past 45 years.
Precious work Chagall had left behind before the war was gone.
Dressed all in black, she strides purposefully across the vast exhibition hall, her presence nearly dwarfing even the mural-sized Marc Chagall stretching from floor to ceiling behind her.
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Blind to danger, Chagall lingered in France until July 1941.
Of the 97 remaining lots, 25 others besides the Rodin failed to find a buyer, including a Matisse, a Pissarro, a Chagall, three Schieles and two works by Picasso.
Those that have a lot of money and may be interested in getting rid of a Picasso or a Chagall and are moving into a different type of medium altogether.
His shrewder friends recognised strategy in Chagall's innocence.
But having read her wonderful evocation of Jewish Vitebsk, tsarist St Petersburg and modernist Paris, having lived as in a novel with the Hasidic families of Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld, his first wife, the reader will be hooked.
About 60 oil paintings, murals and sketches gathered together from Moscow, St Petersburg and Paris focus on the eight years Chagall spent in his home town of Vitebsk in Russia during World War 1, the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath.
Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.
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