Biblia Prints

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InJanuary 1965 Master Salvador Dali appointed Sidney Z. Lucas, New York City art publisher, to be his exclusive publisher in North America of hand signed graphics, such as lithographs, etchings, lithographic prints, etc.

We have an extensive collection of Salvador Dali original lithographs. All editions are limited to 150 or 300, hand signed by Dali and numbered from 1 to 150 or 300. The editions were released for distribution by the Old Print Center of Phyllis Lucas Gallery and are now available from the Lucille Lucas Gallery.

Salvador Dali is the leading exponent of figurative painting in an epoch dominated by abstract art. He is diametrically opposed to the school, which limits its efforts to the mere arrangement of forms on canvas. Dali prefers to concern himself primarily with content. His subject matter is the human psyche, perhaps the only subject legitimately open to human exploration.

From his early days as a leader of the Surrealist movement to the present when he is working in his won independent and utterly unique vein, Dali has devoted himself to a persistent and courageous exploration of the little-known regions of the subconscious.

When a 24-year old Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1911, La Ruche was already a thriving artist colony with its own robust exhibition and theater schedule. An established population of Eastern European artists had already planted roots in the studio complex and their artistic output was varied and complex. All styles were embraced and living in close quarters gave artists ample opportunity to be influenced by the styles of their peers. This meant that artists in La Ruche often worked in blended styles, taking cues from all of the leading movements of the time. Chagall definitely did this, merging elements of Cubism, Expressionism, Fauvism, and Futurism together in this own idiosyncratic way.

Lover and dreamer, folk artist Marc Chagall chased the fantastic and dreamlike his whole life. Buy an original signed color lithograph or original print and bring Chagall's unique vision of beauty home with you.

Marc Chagall was born July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Belarus. From 1907 to 1910, he studied in Saint Petersburg, at the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts and later with Lon Bakst. In 1910, he moved to Paris, where he associated with Guillaume Apollinaire and Robert Delaunay and encountered Fauvism and Cubism. Chagall is known for his colorful and illustrative paintings. He participated in the Salon des Indpendants and the Salon d'Automne in 1912. His first solo show was held in 1914 at Der Sturm gallery in Berlin.

Chagall visited Russia in 1914, and was prevented from returning to Paris by the outbreak of war. He settled in Vitebsk, where he was appointed Commissar for Art in 1918. He founded the Vitebsk Popular Art School and directed it until disagreements with the Suprematists resulted in his resignation in 1920. He moved to Moscow and executed his first stage designs for the State Jewish Chamber Theater there. After a sojourn in Berlin, Chagall returned to Paris in 1923 and met Ambroise Vollard. His first retrospective took place in 1924 at the Galerie Barbazanges-Hodebert, Paris. During the 1930s, he traveled to Palestine, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, and Italy. In 1933, the Kunsthalle Basel held a major retrospective of Marc Chagall's paintings.

During World War II, Chagall fled to the United States. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gave him a retrospective in 1946. He settled permanently in France in 1948 and exhibited in Paris, Amsterdam, and London. During 1951, he visited Israel and executed his first sculptures, moving away from his paintings. The following year, the artist traveled in Greece and Italy. During the 1960s, Chagall continued to travel widely, often in association with large-scale commissions he received. Among these were windows for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, installed in 1962; a ceiling for the Paris Opra, installed in 1964; a window for the United Nations building, New York, installed in 1964; murals for the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, installed in 1967; and windows for the cathedral in Metz, France, installed in 1968. An exhibition of the artist's work from 1967 to 1977 was held at the Muse du Louvre, Paris, in 1977-78, and a major retrospective was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1985. During his lifetime he also created popular lithographs, such as Maternity, based on his paintings. Chagall died March 28, 1985, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

"When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is." Picasso claimed he was not a fan of the "flying violins and all the folklore, but his canvases are really painted, not just thrown together." He followed up by saying, "There's never been anybody since Renoir who has the feeling for light that Chagall has."

The Museum of Biblical Art describes The Bible Chagall prints as showing "Chagall's fluid forms, dreamlike sense of space and unique style. In his choice of subject matter, Chagall reveals his reading of the Old Testament in its moments of triumph, sorrow, and prophecy." Chagall paintings often illustrated biblical and mythological stories in a way that showed the viewer the message while remaining visually intriguing. Today Chagall paintings are made more accessible through the plethora of prints the artist created of his paintings.

It was during this time that Chagall had his first commercial successes. He became an integral part of what later became known as the Ecole de Paris. Some of his paintings from this period, like Paris Through the Window, show his very successful attempts to fit into his new milieu, while others, like The Birthday, and I and the Village are filled with nostalgia for his old life in Vitebsk. The range of emotive and whimsical figures and motifs in Chagall's work led Andr Breton to say that he alone had returned metaphor triumphantly to modern painting.

Marc Chagall's artwork are steeped in his Jewish heritage, often including memories of his home in Vitebsk, Belarus and in Vitebsk, Belarus and it's folk culture. These subjects are the themes that Chagall always returns to. Some have argued that his painting style after the war was more subdued, melancholy, even hearkening back in time to post-Impressionism, but as ever, his work was entirely, uniquely his own. Chagall, throughout his career, incorporated elements from many schools of modern art, including Cubism, Fauvism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Orphism and Futurism. Ever though, his work revealed deeper levels of a resonant, lyrical emotional aesthetic, of music and culture, of a deep, intrinsic understanding of Jewish heritage.

\n\nSince my early youth, I have been fascinated by the Bible. It has always seemed to me still that it is the greatest source of poetry of all time. Since then I have sought this reflection in life and in art. The Bible is like an echo of nature and this secret I have tried to transmit.\nMarc Chagall, on the Bible\n\n\nMarc Chagall, was a prolific Russian artist whose bright, whimsical, and iconic works catapulted his name into the forefront of the art world. Heralding his Jewish background, Chagall\u2019s compositions would range from references to mid-summer romances along the French Riviera to the Bible.\n\n\nLong influenced by religion, in the spring of 1931, he traveled to the Holy Land in what became a life-changing experience, both spiritually and creatively. Creating Marc Chagall's The Bible series in 1931-1939 right after his trip and picking it up again twenty five years later in 1952-56, the first series based on his fascination comprised of two volumes and 105 etchings. His second series, which we will be discussing, is the series titled Drawings for the Bible which comprised of 24 color lithographs illustrating tales from the Bible that was published by Verve, Paris and printed by Mourlot, Paris from 1958-1960.\n\n\nThe inspiration for Marc Chagall's Drawings for the Bible was not just from his visit to the Holy Land, but from his own childhood in Russia as well. In Marc Chagall: The Graphic Works, Chagall\u2019s biographer Franz Meyer states, \u201cChagall\u2019s ties with the Bible are very deep indeed; the forms that people its (the Bible\u2019s) world are a part of his own inner life, part of the living Jewish heritage, and thus are archetypes of a greater, more intensive world.\u201d\n\n\nIn Drawings for the Bible, Chagall conveys the struggles and triumphs of humanity. Drawing from his own sense of spirituality and faith, he carefully selected the scenes that he chose to illustrate. Chagall\u2019s approach to Drawings for the Bible focuses on the intense encounters between God and humanity and reflects his understanding of the Old Testament, highlighting moments of triumph, sorrow, and prophecy. God calls upon his subjects to perform great acts, yet his subjects are still human, capable of weakness, doubt, treachery, and lust. Utilizing a vibrant color palette, dramatic shading, and fanciful imagery, these powerful themes and emotions are captured in Chagall's 24 stunning lithographic prints from Drawings for the Bible. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLe Visage d'Isra\u00ebl (The Face of Israel): Refers to Hosea 7:10: \u201cThough the pride of Israel testifies against him,Yet they have not returned to the LORD their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this.\u201d From the Book of Hosea, this expresses the fact that the people were so sure of their standing with God that they did nothing to assure its continuance. They thought of themselves as God's chosen people, and they felt they were beyond being judged of God. Pride, of this kind, comes just before a fall, but as the rest of Hosea shows, God will always bring them back to the light.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadis (Paradise): Refers to Genesis 1:30: \u201cand to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food\"; and it was so.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which God creates the world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParadis (Paradise): Refers to Genesis 2:8: \u201cThe LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which God creates the world.\n\n\n*Note: the above two works, Marc Chagall named the same.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCr\u00e9ation (Creation): Refers to Genesis 1:1: \u201cIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which God creates everything.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam et \u00c8ve et le Fruit d\u00e9fendu (Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit): Refers to Genesis 2:16\u201317: \u201cAnd the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.' From the Book of Genesis, in which after creating the world God creates man, Adam, and appoints him as his regent, with a desire for him not eat the forbidden fruit.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u00c8ve maudite par Dieu (Eve Incurs God\u2019s Displeasure): Refers to Genesis 3:12: \u201cThen the LORD God said to the woman, \"What is this you have done?\" And the woman said, \"The serpent deceived me, and I ate.\" From the Book of Genesis, in which after creating Adam, God crates Eve from his rib, and God set\u2019s his wrath upon Eve at having been deceived by the snake and eating the forbidden fruit.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam et \u00c8ve chass\u00e9s du Paradis terrestre (Adam and Eve are banished from Paradise): Refers to Genesis 3:23: \u201cSo He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.\u201d From the Book of Genesis in which God exiles Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden due to their sin of eating the forbidden fruit. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCa\u00efn et Abel (Cain and Abel): Refers to Genesis 4:8: \u201cCain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, this part tells the story of Adam and Eve\u2019s sons Abel and Cain. Abel kills Cain due to jealousy and anger.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara et Abimelech (Sarah and Abimelech): Refers to Genesis 20:2: \u201cAbraham said of Sarah his wife, \"She is my sister.\" So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which this part tells the story of King Abimelech who takes Sarah from Abraham and upon God\u2019s urging gives Abraham her back, as well as land, sheep and servants to erase the curse upon him that God gave him for the sin.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nSara et les Anges (Sarah and the Angels): Genesis 21:1 \u201cThen the LORD took note of Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had promised.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which this part tells the story of how three angels visit the prophet Abraham and his wife Sarah to announce that God will give them an incredible blessing, a child, despite the fact that both are elderly.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAgar dans le D\u00e9sert (Hagar in the Desert): Refers to Genesis 21:15- 16 \u201cWhen the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes; Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, \"Do not let me see the boy die.\" And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which this part tells the story of how Sarah became jealous of Hagar\u2019s son with Abraham and so Abraham sent her with the boy into the desert where God hears their plight and gifts the son a nation of his own.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel d\u00e9robe les Idoles de son P\u00e8re (Rachel hides her Father\u2019s Household Gods): Refers to Genesis 31:34: \u201cNow Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel's saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which this part tells of how Rachel, daughter of Laban, was one of the two wives of her cousin Jacob and how in the midst of leaving her father, she took his idols with her which angered him.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTamar Belle-Fille de Juda (Tamar Daughter-in-Law of Judah): Refers to Genesis 38:1: \u201cJudah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, \u201cLive as a widow in your father\u2019s household until my son Shelah grows up.\u201d For he thought, \u201cHe may die too, just like his brothers.\u201d So Tamar went to live in her father\u2019s household.\u201d From the Book of Genesis, in which Tamar first married Judah's eldest son, Er but because of his wickedness, Er was killed by God. After his death Judah asked his second son, Onan, to provide offspring for Tamar so that the family line might continue, but Onan refused and died prematurely. Judah then viewed Tamar to be cursed and refused to give her anymore sons.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRahab et les Espions de J\u00e9richo (Rehab and the Spies of Jericho): Refers to Joshua 6:23: \u201cAnd the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.\u201d From the Book of Joshua, this part tells the story of Rahab who ran an inn built on the Jericho city wall where she hid the spies of Joshua on her rooftop. Misleading the King, Rahab pleaded for her life and for the lives of her family members through the spies. Once Jericho fell, Joshua gave orders to rescue Rahab and all in her house and they were adopted by the Jews and stayed with them.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNo\u00e9mie et ses Belles-Filles (Naomi and her Daughters-in-Law): Refers to Ruth 1:8: \u201cAnd Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, \"Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the LORD deal kindly with you as you have dealt with the dead and with me.\u201d From the Book of Ruth, this part tells the story of Naomi who had two daughter-in-laws Ruth and Orpah.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth glaneuse (Ruth Gleaning): Refers to Ruth 2:3: \u201cSo she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.\u201d From the Book of Ruth, in which Ruth refused to leave her mother-in-law Naomi and returned with her to Bethlehem. In order to take care of her, Ruth went to work in the fields and impressed Boaz, one of the owners of fields, that he encouraged her to work for him and they later were married.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecontre de Ruth et de Booz (Meeting of Ruth and Boaz): Refers to Ruth 2:5-6: \u201cThen Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers, \"Whose young woman is this?\" ; The servant in charge of the reapers replied, \"She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.\u201d From the Book of Ruth, in which Ruth refused to leave her mother-in-law Naomi and returned with her to Bethlehem. In order to take care of her, Ruth went to work in the fields and impressed Boaz, one of the owners of fields, that he encouraged her to work for him and they later were married.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth aux Pieds de Booz (Ruth at the Feet of Boaz): Refers to Ruth 3:7: \u201cWhen Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.\u201d From the Book of Ruth, in which Ruth refused to leave her mother-in-law Naomi and returned with her to Bethlehem. In order to take care of her, Ruth went to work in the fields and impressed Boaz, one of the owners of fields, that he encouraged her to work for him and they later were married.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooz se r\u00e9veille et voit Ruth \u00e0 ses Pieds (Boaz Wakes Up and Sees Ruth at his Feet): Refers to Ruth 3:8-9: \u201cIt happened in the middle of the night that the man was startled and bent forward; and behold, a woman was lying at his feet. 9He said, \"Who are you?\" And she answered, \"I am Ruth your maid. So spread your covering over your maid, for you are a close relative.\u201d From the Book of Ruth, in which Ruth refused to leave her mother-in-law Naomi and returned with her to Bethlehem. In order to take care of her, Ruth went to work in the fields and impressed Boaz, one of the owners of fields, that he encouraged her to work for him and they later were married.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid sauv\u00e9 par Michal (David Saved by Michal): Refers to 1 Samuel 19:11-12: \u201cThen Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, \"If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death; So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.\u201d From the Book of Samuel, this part describes David's first marriage to Michal, the younger daughter of his rival, King Saul, which was a political alliance that through her help allowed him to become King.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAssu\u00e9rus chasse Vasthi (Ahasuerus send Vasthi Away): Refers to Esther 1:10-12: \u201cOn the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,; to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown in order to display her beauty to the people and the princes, for she was beautiful.; But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. Then the king became very angry and his wrath burned within him.\u201d From the Book of Esther, this part tells the story of Vasthi, the wife of King Ahasuerus who was put away for refusing to exhibit herself at a royal banquet.\n\n\n\nMarc Chagall, Esther (Esther)\n\n\n\nEsther (Esther): Refers to Esther 2:7: \"And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.\" Esther was the daughter of a Benjamite, Abihail. When Cyrus gave permission for the exiles to return unto Jerusalem she stayed with Mordecai.\u201d From the Book of Esther, in which Esther replaces the disposed Queen Vashti and marries King Ahasuerus.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJob en Prier\u00e8 (Job Praying): Refers to Job 1:20: \u201cThen Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped.\u201d From the Book of Job, in which Job, a family man who lives a good and prosperous life, is eventually beset with horrendous disasters that take away all he has, including his family, his health, and his property. Job struggles to understand his situation and begins a long search for the right path that will get him out of his extremely difficult situation. Against all odds, and with God's help, Job is restored to a semblance of his earlier existence.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJob d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9 (Job in Despair): Refers to Job 3:11: \u201c\"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?\u201d From the Book of Job, in which Job, a family man who lives a good and prosperous life, is eventually beset with horrendous disasters that take away all he has, including his family, his health, and his property. Job struggles to understand his situation and begins a long search for the right path that will get him out of his extremely difficult situation. Against all odds, and with God's help, Job is restored to a semblance of his earlier existence.\n\n\nMORE MARC CHAGALL SERIES:\n\n\n\nMarc Chagall, Bible Series, 1958\nMarc Chagall, Nice and the C\u00f4t\u2019d Azur Lithograph Series\nMarc Chagall, Daphnis and Chloe Lithograph Series\n\n\n\nEXHIBITIONS:\n\n\n\n2012 exhibition of Marc Chagall's Drawings from the Bible series, The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art\nMarc Chagall Satellite exhibit, Marc Chagall Drawing's from the Bible series, Museum of Ancient and Modern Art\n\n\n\nBOOKS:\n\n\n\nPatrick Cramer. Marc Chagall, The Illustratred Books\nDistributed Art Publishers, Marc Chagall The Lithographs, La Collection Sorlier\n\n\n";window.isMobile = false; Explore the Fine Art Gallery

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