The Village

Marc Chagall | Lithograph on Arches Paper | 1968

Few subjects held Chagall more tenderly than the village — the shtetl world of his Vitebsk childhood that he transformed, again and again, into a mythic landscape of memory and longing. The Village distills that vision into a single luminous image: figures, animals, and rooftops suspended in the dreaming space between earth and sky that is unmistakably, irreducibly Chagall.

• Medium: Lithography on Arches paper
• Size: 11.41 × 9.05 inches
• Signature: Signed in the plate
• Printer: Atelier Mourlot, Paris, 1968
• Provenance: Special publication for Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, issued to accompany a series of 27 gouaches by Chagall

Part of the same landmark Pierre Matisse Gallery publication as At the Circus, this lithograph shares the exceptional provenance of that series — printed by Atelier Mourlot, the Parisian workshop that set the standard for fine art lithography throughout the twentieth century. Collecting both works offers a rare opportunity to hold two complementary facets of Chagall’s world: the spectacle of the big top and the quiet poetry of the village.

Arrives custom framed and ready to hang. Please allow 2–3 weeks for fulfillment.