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The Chagall Collection at Coast Galleries

A new series of limited edition prints from paintings by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) are now
on exhibit for the first time in the West Coast at Coast Galleries in Big Sur and Pebble Beach.

Published under the auspices of the Chagall family estate, the prints bear the embossed sig-
nature of the artist and the official seals of the publisher and the Chagall Estate. Although all of
the paintings have appeared in numerous international art books, none of these images have
been previously produced as limited edition prints.

Born in Russia, Chagall immigrated to France in 1922 where he spent the next twenty years
painting in Paris. He lived in the United States between 1941 and 1948 where I found there a
feeling of youth, then returned to my real home in France until his death in 1985 at age 97.

Pablo Picasso said, Chagall is the only painter who really understands what colour is and
Henry Miller described him as a poet with the wings of a painter. But of color Chagall said,
In life, just as on the artists palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and
artthe colour of love.

Chagall is known for such dream-like images as a bride and groom floating in front of the
Eiffel tower and surrounded by vibrantly colorful flowers, birds and animals. He drew upon his
Jewish cultural heritage for many of his images, including synagogues, cemeteries, weddings and
a fiddler on the roof, a character who was his uncle in real life.

The collection also includes serigraphs reproduced from the stained glass windows Chagall
created for the Hadassah Synagogue. At the 1962 dedication he spoke of the joy he felt in bring-
ing my modest gift to the Jewish people, who have always dreamt of biblical love, of friendship
and peace among all people; to that people who lived here, thousands of years ago, among other
Semitic people. My hope is that I hereby extend my hand to seekers of culture, to poets and to
artists among the neighboring people.

As one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, Chagalls paintings are hung in every
major museum and art collection in the world. Coast Galleries is grateful to the Chagall Estate
for permitting the release of these limited edition prints and is honored to represent this
historic collection.

Gary Koeppel,
Curator and Founder
Coast Galleries

10. MARIES SOUS LE BALDAQUIN

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1. LE GRAND BOUQUET

2. LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL

3. LES MARIES

4. LES BOUQUET ET LA TOUR EIFFEL

5. LA SIRENE AU PIN

6. PERSONNAGES FANTASTIQUES
7. FRUITS ET FLEURS DEVANT LA MER

8. ENTRE LHIVER ET LE PRINTEMPS

9. LA GERBE DE BLE

11. BOUQUET DES AMOUREUX VOLANTS

12. LES TROIS CIERGES

13. LA FARANDOLE DETE

 14. LE BOUQUET ILLUMINANT LE CIEL

15. LEXODE
30. REUBEN 34. LEVI

32. JUDAH

31. JOSEPH 35. DAN

33. ISSACHAR
 38. BENJAMIN

36. NAPHTALI 40. ZEBULUN

39. ASHER

37. SIMEON 41. GAD

16. LE BOUQUET DE RENOCULES

17. LE BOUQUET NUPTIALE

18. LE CIRQUE

19. LE SONGE
20. LE SOLEIL SUR PARIS

21. AUTOUR DELLE

22. LE BOUQUET DEVANT LA FENETRE

23. LARTISTE ET SON MODELE

24. LE BOUQUET ET LE VILLAGE BLEU

25. LA PROCESSION DE NOEL

26. LONELINESS

27. MARIES AU VILLAGE

28. LOFFRANDE

29. AUTOPORTRAIT AVEC BOUQUET DE FLEURS

The Chagall Collection at Coast Galleries

NO. TITLE MEDIUM PLATES PAPER SIZE IMAGE SIZE EDITION

1. LE GRAND BOUQUET Lithograph 20 18" x 13" 15" x 11" 450

2. LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL (large) Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 32" x 24" Sold
LES MARIES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL (small, S-II) Lithograph 20 15" x 13" 12" x 11" 450
3. LES MARIES Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 13" x 11" 450
4. LES BOUQUET ET LA TOUR EIFFEL Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 14" x 11" 450
5. LA SIRENE AU PIN Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 15" x 11" 450
6. PERSONNAGES FANTASTIQUES Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 14" x 11" 450
7. FRUITS ET FLEURS DEVANT LA MER Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 13" x 11" 450
8. ENTRE LHIVER ET LE PRINTEMPS Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 14" x 11" 450
9. LE GERBE DE BLE Lithograph 20 18" x 13" 15" x 11" 450
10. MARIES SOUS LE BALDAQUIN (small, S-II) Lithograph 20 17" x 13" 13" x 11" 450
MARIES SOUS LE BALDAQUIN (large) Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" 950
11. BOUQUET DES AMOUREUX VOLANTS Lithograph 20 25" x 19" 23" x 17" 450
12. LES TROIS CIERGES (large, S-II) Lithograph 20 25" x 20" 22" x 17" 450
LES TROIS CIERGES (small) Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 13" x 10" Sold
13. LA FARANDOLE DETE (large, S-II) Lithograph 20 25" x 20" 22" x 17" 450
LA FARANDOLE DETE (small) Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 13" x 11" 750
14. LE BOUQUET ILLUMINANT LE CIEL Lithograph 20 41" x 28" 31" x 25" 750
15. LEXODE Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 37" x 20" 750
16. LE BOUQUET DE RENOCULES Lithograph 20 41" x 28" 37" x 19" 750
17. LE BOUQUET NUPTIALE Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 32" x 24" 750
18. LE CIRQUE Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 32" x 24" 750
19. LE SONGE Lithograph 20 41" x 28" 31" x 25" 750
20. LE SOLEIL SUR PARIS Lithograph 20 41" x 29" 30" x 24" 750
21. AUTOUR DELLE Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 13" x 11" 750
22. LE BOUQUET DEVANT LA FENETRE Lithograph 20 15" x 15" 13" x 11" Sold
23. LARTISTE ET SON MODELE Lithograph 20 15" x 14" 14" x 11" 750
24. LE BOUQUET ET LE VILLAGE BLEU Lithograph 20 15" x 15" 13" x 11" 750
25. LA PROCESSION DE NOEL Lithograph 20 24" x 31" 20" x 28" 295
26. LONELINESS Lithograph 20 32" x 24" 20" x 28" 295
27. MARIES AU VILLAGE Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" 950
28. LOFFRANDE Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" Sold
29. AUTOPORTRAIT AVEC BOUQUET DE FLEURS Serigraph 25 32" x 24" 24" x 21" 950
30. REUBEN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
31. JOSEPH Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
32. JUDAH Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
33. ISSACHAR Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
34. LEVI Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" Sold
35. DAN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
36. NAPHTALI Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
37. SIMEON Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
38. BENJAMIN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
39. ASHER Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
40. ZEBULUN Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
41. GAD Serigraph 25 33" x 25" 27" x 21" 500
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Marc Chagall [1887-1985]

Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussia to a poor Hassidic family.
The eldest of nine children, he studied first in a heder before moving to
a secular Russian school, where he began to display his artistic talent.
With his mothers support, and despite his fathers disapproval, Chagall
pursued his interest in art, going to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study art
with Leon Bakst. Influenced by contemporary Russian painting,
Chagalls distinctive, child-like style, often centering on images from his
childhood, began to emerge.

From 1910 to 1914, Chagall lived in Paris, and there absorbed the works
of the leading cubist, surrealist, and fauvist painters. It was during this period that Chagall painted some of his
most famous paintings of the Jewish shtetl or village, and developed the features that became recognizable trade-
marks of his art. Strong and often bright colors portray the world with a dreamlike, non-realistic simplicity, and
the fusion of fantasy, religion, and nostalgia infuses his work with a joyous quality. Animals, workmen, lovers, and
musicians populate his figures; the fiddler on the roof recurs frequently, often hovering within another scene.
Chagalls work of this period displays the influence of contemporary French painting, but his style remains inde-
pendent of any one school of art. He exhibited regularly in the Salon des Independants.

In 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Chagall held a one-man show in Berlin, exhibiting work dominated
by Jewish images and personages. During the war, he resided in Russia, and in 1917, endorsing the revolution, he
was appointed Commissar for Fine Arts inVitebsk and then director of the newly established Free Academy of
Art. The Bolshevik authorities, however, frowned upon Chagalls style of art as too modern, and in 1922, Chagall
left Russia, settling in France one year later. He lived there permanently except for the years 1941-1948 when, flee-
ing France during World War II, he resided in the United States. Chagalls horror over the Nazi rise to power is
expressed in works depicting Jewish martyrs and Jewish refugees.

In addition to images of the Hassidic world, Chagalls paintings are inspired by themes from the Bible. His fasci-
nation with the Bible culminated in a series of over 100 etchings illustrating the Bible, many of which incorporate
elements from Jewish folklore and from religious life in Vitebsk. Chagalls other illustrations include works by
Gogol, La Fontaine, Y. L. Peretz, and his autobiographical Ma Vie (1931: My
Life 1960) and Chagall by Chagall (1979).

Chagall painted with a variety of media, such as oils, watercolors, and gouaches.
His work also expanded to other forms of art, including ceramics, mosaics, and
stained glass. Among his most famous building decorations are the ceiling of
the Opera House in Paris, murals at the New York Metropolitan Opera, a glass
window at the United Nations, and decorations at the Vatican.
Israel, which Chagall first visited in 1931 for the opening of the Tel Aviv Art
Museum, is likewise endowed with some of Chagalls work, most notably the
twelve stained glass windows at Hadassah Hospital and wall decorations at the
Knesset. Chagall received many prizes and much recognition for his work. He
was also one of very few artists to exhibit work at the Louvre in their lifetime.

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