During World War II, Chagall lived in Gordes with Bella and Ida until 1940. In 1941, he went into exile in the United States, having been invited by the Museum of Modern Art and receiving assistance from the journalist Varian Fry. He and his family settled down at no. 4 East 74th Street. Their exile was documented in several photographs taken in the studio. In them, Chagall appeared at his window, gazing out at the city he came to call home. He managed to bring with him a number of paintings, and painted others there such as War (1943). The artist then took up residence in High Falls, before returning to Orgeval, France, in 1948. There, he rented a large villa named L’Aulnette with Virginia McNeil and her son David, born in 1946. The environment for this studio was different from others in the past, given the building’s size and “Anglo-Norman” style. It seems that Chagall took root in a vast room on the ground floor, where the sunlight would stream in through the large bay windows.
During World War II, Chagall lived in Gordes with Bella and Ida until 1940. In 1941, he went into exile in the United States, having been invited by the Museum of Modern Art and receiving assistance from the journalist Varian Fry. He and his family settled down at no. 4 East 74th Street. Their exile was documented in several photographs taken in the studio. In them, Chagall appeared at his window, gazing out at the city he came to call home. He managed to bring with him a number of paintings, and painted others there such as War (1943). The artist then took up residence in High Falls, before returning to Orgeval, France, in 1948. There, he rented a large villa named L’Aulnette with Virginia McNeil and her son David, born in 1946. The environment for this studio was different from others in the past, given the building’s size and “Anglo-Norman” style. It seems that Chagall took root in a vast room on the ground floor, where the sunlight would stream in through the large bay windows.