Chagall’s studio was a place for the other artists he invited there to mingle: “Several times a week, my studio in Avenue d’Orléans was filled with artists and writers of Montparnasse. Bella loved entertaining guests. Her beauty and dark hair were in perfect harmony with our friends’ young faces1,” reminisces Chagall in the unpublished follow-up to Ma vie. The artist’s studio was also the family’s living quarters, their home. In the photographs taken in the 1920s, in his Parisian studio located at 110, Avenue d’Orléans, Chagall can be seen surrounded by his wife Bella and daughter Ida. Wall hangings, cushions, and various other fabrics adorned the walls and furniture, true to classic “bohemian” style. Marc Chagall then moved to a millstone house at 3, Allée des Pins in Boulogne, and later returned to the 16th district of Paris—first to the Villa Montmorency and then to the Villa Eugène-Manuel. Both in Boulogne and Villa Montmorency, his homes boasted a large bay window, flooding the studio with light and creating a transition from the outdoors to the indoors. His dwellings were private yet open to the artist’s close friends and family.
1Marc Chagall: retrospective 1908-1985 (exhibition catalogue., Milan, Palazzo Reale, September 17, 2014–February 1, 2015, Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, February 28–June 28, 2015), Brussels, Fonds Mercator, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 2015, p. 25.
Chagall’s studio was a place for the other artists he invited there to mingle: “Several times a week, my studio in Avenue d’Orléans was filled with artists and writers of Montparnasse. Bella loved entertaining guests. Her beauty and dark hair were in perfect harmony with our friends’ young faces1,” reminisces Chagall in the unpublished follow-up to Ma vie. The artist’s studio was also the family’s living quarters, their home. In the photographs taken in the 1920s, in his Parisian studio located at 110, Avenue d’Orléans, Chagall can be seen surrounded by his wife Bella and daughter Ida. Wall hangings, cushions, and various other fabrics adorned the walls and furniture, true to classic “bohemian” style. Marc Chagall then moved to a millstone house at 3, Allée des Pins in Boulogne, and later returned to the 16th district of Paris—first to the Villa Montmorency and then to the Villa Eugène-Manuel. Both in Boulogne and Villa Montmorency, his homes boasted a large bay window, flooding the studio with light and creating a transition from the outdoors to the indoors. His dwellings were private yet open to the artist’s close friends and family.