Mosaic

The Wailing Wall, Knesset, Jerusalem

(Le Mur des Lamentations, Knesset, Jérusalem)

Author: Marc CHAGALL
In collaboration with: LINO ET HEIDI MELANO, LUIGI GUARDIGLI ET LEONARD LEONI

Numéro catalogue raisonné: M-7
Date de création: 1964 - 1966
Technique: Glass pastes, stones and Negev stones
Dimensions: 217 _5/16 x 232 _5/16 in. (552 x 590 cm)
Inscription(s): Signed Chagall at the bottom right corner

Place of conservation: Knesset, Jérusalem, Israel

Keywords:

Judaism (shofar)

Marc CHAGALL, in collaboration with LINO ET HEIDI MELANO, LUIGI GUARDIGLI ET LEONARD LEONI, The Wailing Wall, Knesset, Jerusalem (Le Mur des Lamentations, Knesset, Jérusalem), 1964 - 1966, glass pastes, stones and Negev stones, 217 _5/16 x 232 _5/16 in. (552 x 590 cm), Knesset, Jérusalem © Shai Halevi, The Knesset Archive/ADAGP, Paris, 2025

Provenance (1)

Knesset, Jérusalem, Israel

Archives (5)

Letter from E. Friedman, Knesset Building Committee (Jerusalem), from E. FRIEDMAN to Marc CHAGALL, February 15, 1966, Archives Marc et Ida Chagall (Paris), AMIC-2A-0118-097
Copy of a letter from Marc Chagall, from Marc CHAGALL to Lino MELANO, June 30, 1966, Archives Marc et Ida Chagall (Paris), AMIC-4A-0012-159
Letter from Lino Melano (Paris), from Lino MELANO to Marc CHAGALL, July 31, 1966, Archives Marc et Ida Chagall (Paris), AMIC-4A-0012-169
Letter from Lino Melano (Paris), from Lino MELANO to Marc CHAGALL, August 22, 1966, Archives Marc et Ida Chagall (Paris), AMIC-4A-0012-173
Postcard from Ida Chagall, from Ida CHAGALL to Marc CHAGALL, September 7, 1969, Archives Marc et Ida Chagall (Paris), AMIC-2A-0257-178

Exhibit

Publications (12)

AMISHAI-MAISELS, Ziva, Tapestries and mosaics of Marc Chagall at the Knesset, New York, Tudor Publishing Compagny, 1973, ill. p. 115, p. 7
ESTEBAN, Claude, VERDET, André, ESTIENNE, Charles, Chagall Monumental, Paris, XX^e siècle, 1973, ill. p. 105
WYMAN, Bill, VERDET, André, CHAGALL, Marc, Chagall Méditerranéen, Paris, Daniel Lelong Éditeur, 1983, p. 91
FORESTIER, Sylvie, SALLOIS, Jacques, CHAGALL, Marc, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall Nice : Catalogue des collections, Paris, RMN-Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1990, p. 257
BAAL-TESHUVA, Jacob, Marc Chagall, Köln, Taschen, 1998, ill. p. 233, 240, p. 239
FORESTIER, Sylvie, FORAY, Jean-Michel, CHAGALL, Marc, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice : Catalogue des collections, Paris, RMN-Réunion des Musées nationaux, 2001, p. 281
LANDI, Diana, Heidi Melano : Mosaïste d'exception : Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Jean-Michel Folon, Zao Wou-Ki, ..., ill. p. 32, 33, p. 31
COIGNARD, Sandrine et Benoît, MEYER, Meret, HELF, Claudine, La cour Chagall, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2004, p. 83
MEYER, Meret, Léonard Gianadda. La sculpture et la Fondation, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2008, p. 69
GOLDBERG, Itzhak, Chagall, Paris, Citadelles & Mazenod, 2019, p. 289
Le Vœu de Marguerite Maeght. Chagall, Bazaine, Giacometti, Ubac à la chapelle Sainte-Roseline, Paris, Le Passage, 2024, p. 92
LE RESTE, Gildas, LEONI, Leonard, Leonard Léoni "de la tesselle à l'amitié" : Conversation avec Gildas Le Reste, Paris, GLR éditions, 2024, p. 19