Catalogues on Marc Chagall
Most of these works are available in the bookshop-boutique of the Musée national Marc Chagall, or can be consulted by appointment at the documentation centre of the Musée national Marc Chagall.
Catalogues on Marc Chagall, published by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais
Catalogue of the exhibition Chagall, Le passeur de lumière (Centre Pompidou-Metz editions, 2021)
The exhibition catalogue was designed as a reference work on the artist's stained glass. The reader will find two types of texts: essays on cross-cutting issues, and notes that clearly and didactically retrace the history and context of each commission.
Price: €42
Of colour and ink. Marc Chagall and the art magazines. Exhibition catalogue (éditions Rmn- Grand Palais, 2020)
From the 1920s onwards, Marc Chagall's contributions to French and international art magazines multiplied, testifying to his interest in this medium, which developed considerably in the 20th century.
for this medium, which developed considerably in the 20th century.
Price: €39
Musée national Marc Chagall. Guide de visite (éditions Rmn- Grand Palais, 2018)
The Musée national Marc Chagall, built in Nice at the instigation of André Malraux, has housed the world's largest collection of works by the artist since 1973.
Price: 8€
Chagall, Sculptures (published by Rmn- Grand Palais, 2017)
Throughout his life, the inventive genius of Marc Chagall (1887-1985) led him to experiment with a variety of artistic techniques: drawing, painting, engraving, ceramics, mosaics, stained glass, tapestry, etc. This range also includes a practice of the artist little known to the general public: sculpture.
Price: 35€
Marc Chagall. Des couleurs pour la Bible (Rmn- Grand Palais editions, 2014)
This catalogue explores the importance of the Bible in the work of Marc Chagall. It presents all the newly restored gouaches with an incredible burst of colour, accompanied by a note.
Price: 25€
Chagall in front of the mirror (2013)
On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Musée National Marc Chagall, an exhibition is dedicated to the artist, around the theme of the self-portrait:
Self-Portraits, Couples and Apparitions, (16 June - 17 October 2013).
Price: 29€
Exiles. Reminiscences and New Worlds (Rmn - Grand Palais edition, 2012).
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Exiles Reminiscences and New Worlds (June 24 to October 8, 2012), at the Musée Chagall in Nice, Musée Léger in Biot & Musée Picasso in Vallauris. The essential experience of exile is common to Picasso, Chagall and Léger, at different times in history. For Chagall and Picasso, exile was a founding factor when they left for the fascinating Paris of the beginning of the century. For Léger, exile served as a new stimulus in the United States after the Second World War. 144 pages, 200 colour illustrations.
Price: 35€
Chagall. Catalogue of the collections of the Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice. (Rmn - Grand Palais edition, 2011).
Illustrated with beautiful archival photographs tracing the artist's career, this work offers commentaries on his masterpieces, thus providing a better understanding of the artist's iconography and technique.
This catalogue, written by the museum's curators, is an essential tribute to a painter who devoted his entire life to developing a veritable poetic grammar of universal significance in painting.
Price: 19.50€
Dis-moi Blaise. Léger, Chagall, Picasso and Blaise Cendrars (Rmn - Grand Palais edition, 2009)
This book looks at the relationships that the writer, poet, novelist, essayist and great traveller, Blaise Cendrars (1887 - 1961) had with Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.
Price: 25 €
Chagall. A painter at the window (Rmn edition, 2008)
Chagall makes the window an object of research present throughout his work.
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Marc Chagall. Monsters, chimeras and hybrid figures (Rmn edition, 2007)
Mysterious chimeras, half-man, half-beast, composite objects with human heads and fantastic flying animals
run through Marc Chagall's work. For the first time, an exhibition is devoted to them.
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Saltimbanques, The Circuses of Chagall (Rmn edition, 2005)
Throughout his work, Marc Chagall continually represented circus people, acrobats, dancers, clowns and musicians.
musicians.
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Chagall known and unknown (Rmn edition, 2003)
The book reflects, through some eighty years of painting and one hundred and eighty paintings and drawings, the praise for the one and multiple life
Chagall, who died in 1985, never ceased to celebrate life, both single and multiple, well into his old age, without ever
without ever worrying about schools, academies, currents or watchwords. Catalogue of the exhibition
Chagall connu et inconnu, presented at the Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, from 14 March to 23 June 2003.
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Marc Chagall. The Fables of La Fontaine (reissued by Rmn, 2003)
3rd reissue of the catalogue published in 1996 which presents 43 of the gouaches made by Marc Chagall.
Price: 15 €.
Chagall, surrealist ? (Rmn edition, 2001)
Chagall did not join the Surrealist group. However, many of his works have a "surrealist" character. This book presents some of them.
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Chagall: stained glass models (Rmn edition, 2000)
In the autumn of 2000, the Musée National Marc Chagall, in Nice, presented all the models from its collections for the stained glass windows created
or designed by Marc Chagall.
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Chagall's travels and encounters, 1923-1939 (Rmn edition, 1998)
A happy period began for Marc Chagall, who returned to Paris in 1923. It was a time of meetings with Ambroise Vollard, Gustave Coquiot, Joseph Delteil
Coquiot, Joseph Delteil, Tériade, Philippe Soupault, Yvan and Claire Goll, René Schwob...
of the rediscovered friendship with Robert and Sophia
Delaunay.
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To Russia, to donkeys and to the others : a masterpiece by Marc Chagall (Rmn edition, 1997)
Catalogue of the exhibition which retraces the history of this famous painting by Marc Chagall, painted in 1911, on the occasion of its restoration.
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Marc Chagall, the ballet, the opéra (Rmn edition, 1995)
One of the little known aspects of Marc Chagall's work is his work on the stage. Chagall was fascinated by theatre, ballet and music from an early age.
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