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Like stained glass, tapestry and ceramics, mosaics were among the new artistic expressions that Marc Chagall experimented with after the Second World War, when he returned to France in 1949 to work in Vence. It opened up new avenues for the artist in his research into light, matter and colour, and in the creation of monumental works in dialogue with architecture.

For the first time, this exhibition offers a complete overview of the fourteen mosaic projects created by Chagall, through numerous works and archive documents. Given the architectural nature of mosaics, some twenty-five sketches and models of Chagall's mosaics illustrate the artist's research and creative process, while four or five mosaic pieces have been brought together exceptionally and will form a highlight of the exhibition.

"With over 120 paintings, drawings and prints, the exhibition explores the creative pairings and interrelationships between fine art and literature in the work of Marc Chagall. The American writer Henry Miller called him a “poet with the wings of a painter.” " 

Marc Chagall (1887–1985) numbers among the 20th century’s best-known artists, and his one-of-a-kind oeuvre encompasses works created as early as 1905 and as late as the 1980s. Born to an Orthodox Hasidic Jewish working-class family and raised in the small Belarusian town of Vitebsk, the artist experienced early childhood in ways that would influence him his entire life long.

The catalogue raisonné of Marc Chagall's ceramics is now available online at marcchagall.com since September 27, 2024.

Come and discover the ceramics created by the artist between 1949 and 1972.