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Special issue. Marc Chagall "HELLO, MOTHERLAND!"

"Hello, Motherland!" - the most complete exhibition of paintings by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) in Russia to date. The name was given to her by one of the artist's works. This is not only about the next long-awaited meeting of the works of the famous master with the Russian audience (the last major exhibition of Chagall was held at the State Tretyakov Gallery in 1992). Homeland - big and small, lost and regained - was constantly present in the art of Chagall, which gave a unique originality to his work.

For many years, Marc Chagall has remained one of the most popular artists of Russian origin in the West. His solo exhibitions are regularly held in prestigious museums and galleries in Europe, America, Asia. The Tretyakov Gallery has repeatedly provided works by Chagall from its collection for international projects. But in our country, a significant part of works from foreign collections have never been exhibited. For the first time, the Moscow public had a unique opportunity to see the artist's collected works created in different years - from early Vitebsk works to famous masterpieces of the French period.

The peculiarity of the exhibition is that it includes a significant number of first-class works by Chagall from foreign collections. The Moscow public will see 27 paintings that are most important for understanding the artist's work from the Paris Museum of Modern Art (Center Georges Pompidou). Among them are iconic works: "Wedding" (1910), "Russia, donkeys and others" (1911), "Angel with a palette" (1927-1936). The triptych Resistance. It was described as “a historical picture of such a scale, which is not often found in the art of the twentieth century”. Revival. Liberation "(1937-1952) Jean-Michel Fauré, director of the National Museum" Biblical message of Marc Chagall "in Nice. From this collection, in addition to 8 first-class gouaches, the exhibition received a unique three-meter canvas "Abraham and Three Angels", which had never left its walls before. Another famous, but unknown to the domestic public, work - "Yellow Room" from the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland.

The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery features over 180 exhibits. The exposition also includes works from the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin and other Russian and foreign museums and private collections.

The exposition makes it possible to follow the changes in the artistic language of Chagall, but, most importantly, to see the "constants" of his unique art, where fantasy and reality, dream and grotesque are mixed, visionary representations, own and folk memory, national and ritual thinking, elements of folklore and incredible , Chagall's utmost sincerity. It is customary to call him "the artist-poet", and his art, following Apollinaire, is "superreal". In Chagall's world, folk characters, strange cows, donkeys, musicians, merchants and lovers hovering over the city coexist. The city over which they take off is Vitebsk. According to Chagall's recognition, Paris became his "second Vitebsk". The master found his third home in the last twenty years of his life on the Cote d'Azur in the town of Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

For Chagall, the connection with Russia was always important, which remained for the artist an inexhaustible source of themes, plots and images. On the first sheet of etchings - illustrations for "Dead Souls" - in 1927, the author wrote: "I give the Tretyakov Gallery, with all my love of a Russian artist to my homeland, this series of 96 engravings ..." 1. He ended one of his last letters with the words: "... I wish you, everyone and my homeland happiness ..."

A catalog in Russian and English has been prepared specially for the exhibition. It contains articles by domestic and foreign experts about the artist's work, over 600 illustrations, as well as a chronograph that includes over 100 photographs from the archives of the painter's heirs. The catalog significantly expands the scope of the exposition and is the most complete publication about Marc Chagall published in Russia.

Ladies and Gentlemen!

You invited us to open with you today the largest exhibition ever held in Russia dedicated to Marc Chagall. It is a great honor and great joy for me.

We pay tribute today to the brightest artist of the 20th century, born in Russia, a great master who was also very attached to France. I am delighted to welcome the representative delegation who has come for this special occasion and assisted in the provision of the exhibits. It includes members of Marc Chagall's family - Mrs Bella Meyer and Mrs Meret Meyer.

It is with great pleasure that I would like to note the contribution of the State Tretyakov Gallery to this extraordinary project. It was also attended by two of the largest French museums - the National Museum of Contemporary Art at the Georges Pompidou Center and the National Museum of the Biblical message of Marc Chagall in Nice, whose directors honored us with their presence today. So, let me once again express my deep gratitude to you, Mr. Valentin Rodionov and Mrs. Ekaterina Selezneva, for this wonderful event.

In fact, the Tretyakov Gallery has been at the forefront of our cultural cooperation for several years now. Thanks to her, it becomes possible to see here the works brought from France. At the same time, the employees of the Gallery simultaneously hold several large-scale events with various famous museums in our country. Paris will very soon be able to respond to it with an unprecedented event: the first large retrospective of Russian art works of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries will open at the Musée d'Orsay on September 20 this year. It will consist of works, most of which have never been exhibited outside of Russia. Following this event in the fall of 2006, it is planned to carry out a project that is very dear to us - Moscow and St. Petersburg will simultaneously host collections that include the most characteristic works of French art from the period 1860-1910. We hope that he will receive financial support from French and Russian private foundations. As you yourself can see, France is doing its best to strengthen the privileged relations in the field of art that connect it with Russia, to make sure that every year becomes the Year of Russia in France and the Year of France in Russia, and that in the largest museums they replace each other, as this was in recent months in Moscow, works by Matisse and Picasso (at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts), Boltanski (at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture), and today - Marc Chagall at the Tretyakov Gallery.

The next meeting in France will take place in less than three weeks at the Book Salon in Paris and will be dedicated to literature. Russia has been invited as a guest of honor. And we also know that the Louvre Museum is preparing a large project for 2008.

The French Embassy always strives to take part in the implementation of these projects. On his behalf, I am pleased to thank all those who, like you today, continue to contribute to the development of close creative, human and intellectual ties between our two countries.

Ambassador of France
in the Russian Federation

When the idea of \u200b\u200ba large exhibition by Marc Chagall came up, at first it looked like an absolute utopia. First, it seemed impossible to collect so many masterpieces: the owners are usually reluctant to give the best works that make up the pride of their collections to exhibitions in other cities and countries. Secondly, it is an extremely expensive project. Finally, organizing large exhibitions with foreign exhibitors is very difficult. However, the desire to implement the project was stronger than our fears. When we started to implement it, we gladly discovered the readiness of many partners - foreign and domestic - to meet us halfway. And today I would like to thank those whose enthusiasm and goodwill helped to solve all the problems, making the artist's long-awaited meeting with Russia possible.

Our main ally is the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, without whose organizational and financial support the project would hardly have been implemented. These efforts were supported by significant financial assistance provided by Vneshtorgbank.

Among the permanent partners and friends of the museum, Leonard Gianadda was the first to respond, as always. In 1990, it was the Janad-da Foundation that helped the Tretyakov Gallery in the restoration of Chagall's priceless panels for the Jewish Theater; at the Gianadda Foundation in Martini, they were first exhibited. This exhibition was the beginning of their triumphant tour around the world.

In recent years, not a single large project of the Gallery has been without the support of British American Tobacco Russia, which this time assisted in financing our exhibition.

Of the nearly two hundred works of Chagall on display at the exhibition, 27 were donated by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Center Georges Pompidou; the legendary painting "Abraham and the Three Angels" and the gouache of the "Biblical Cycle" were brought by the National Museum "The Bible Message of Marc Chagall" in Nice; about four dozen wonderful works came from the family's collections. Finally, at the last moment, the question of coming to the exhibition of the famous "Yellow Room" from the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland was decided - thanks to the assistance of the owners and the help of the Parisian Bulakia gallery.

The exhibition would not have been so large-scale without those most important works that were provided to us by the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin Museum in Moscow and a number of Russian museums and private collections.

I would like to thank all the staff of the Tretyakov Gallery for the high professionalism and dedication with which they worked on the implementation of this difficult project.

We are excited to present to you the result of the joint efforts of many participants - the exhibition by Marc Chagall "Hello, Motherland!" The Russian public will be able to see and appreciate the collection of works by the recognized classic of the 20th century - from early Vitebsk works to masterpieces of the French period, many of which are exhibited in Russia for the first time.

A catalog was prepared for the exhibition. It contains articles by Russian, French, American art critics, which represent a serious result of modern research on Chagall's work. We believe that this book will become a fundamental scientific and reference publication for many specialists and connoisseurs of Chagall's art. We are pleased to announce that the publication of the English version of the catalog became possible only thanks to the financial assistance of the International Marc Chagall Foundation, where Chagall's granddaughter Meret Meyer applied for project support. This amazing woman has been selflessly helping the Tretyakov Gallery in preparing the exhibition for three years. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Jean-Louis Prat, President of the Marc Chagall Committee, for invaluable advice.

General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery

Dear friends!
I am very glad that the exhibition of Marc Chagall's works opens a new, eighth year of cooperation between British American Tobacco Russia and the State Tretyakov Gallery. We are proud that we continue to contribute to the implementation of large-scale exhibition projects, to replenish the museum's collection with new works of art and to the technical re-equipment of the Gallery.

Having lived most of his life abroad, Marc Chagall considered himself a Russian artist. Today, with the support of Russian patrons of art, including BAT Russia, Chagall returned to his homeland. Chagall's hometown, Vitebsk, I myself consider a city very close to me - after all, my father was born in a house located on the same street where Chagall lived. Dad remembered well and told me a lot about the time when Mark Zakharovich, having returned to Vitebsk after the revolution, headed the Commissariat for Culture.

It is pleasant to realize that now the Russian public will be able to enjoy the lyricism of this outstanding artist, who, according to Mayakovsky, "wrote poetry and poems with the colors of his heart."

I would like to thank all the staff of the Tretyakov Gallery, and especially Ekaterina Leonidovna Selezneva, curator of the exhibition “Hello, Motherland!” By Marc Chagall, for this wonderful holiday. I am sure that such a grandiose exhibition will become a bright event in the cultural life of the Russian capital in 2005.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of BAT-Java JSC, member of the Board of Trustees of the State Tretyakov Gallery

It may seem surprising and even incredible, but a huge part of the works of Marc Chagall at home, in Russia, has never been presented. And this is despite the fact that the work of the great artist has long been recognized all over the world, including at home, and we, his compatriots, had more than enough time to fill this gap.

I may be reminded that Marc Chagall was born and began to create in Vitebsk, that is, in Belarus, but there is no contradiction in what has been said. The artist himself considered Russia his homeland and suffered from the fact that she pointedly turned away from him. What sad poetry sounds like a letter to Russia written in 1927 to one of Chagall's addressees: “... I am almost torn off from Russia. Nobody writes to me, and I have nobody to write to. As if I was not born in Russia ... And it seems: I don't need anything there. And I often remember my Vitebsk, my fields ... and especially the sky. "

Today justice is being restored, and in Russian culture Marc Chagall takes the place he deserves by right. Another step on this path will be the exhibition "Hello, Motherland!", Titled so by the title of one of the Chagall works. Thanks to the Tretyakov Gallery, which displayed Chagall's work with such an impressive completeness, Russian viewers will be able to expand their understanding of one of the most outstanding masters of the 20th century.

President-Chairman
Of the board
OJSC "Vneshtorgbank"

It is impossible to describe in words the excitement that we feel today, attending the opening of the exhibition “Hello, Motherland!”, The emotions that overwhelm us when we feel this intense gazing at the works of Marc Chagall, see the attentive eyes of the Russian public, plunge into this special atmosphere full of moments of many magical discoveries.

But we cannot even imagine the excitement that our grandfather would experience if he had a chance to experience these moments of happiness with us. If our gaze could soar over these roofs and soar upward, this would bring us closer to the feelings of Chagall, today, no doubt, painted in vivid, bright, poetic colors. Moreover, he forever retained strong impressions of how thoughtfully and in depth the Russian public examines works of art, trying to get into the essence of the artist's intention.

When in 1973 our grandfather returned from a trip to Russia, which became, after his final departure, the first and last meeting with his Motherland, I remember how he remembered this Russian look - he did not speak much, he simply fell silent for a long time, and after a while, said: "Oh, that's what a thing!"

Today we also had the honor to understand a lot about this "look". It is analogous to that genuine magic that emanates in silence from the works of the master gathered together here.

Meret Meyer ,
granddaughter of the artist

It is rather difficult for me to speak after my sister, who managed to find the right words to express the feelings that we experience while in Moscow. Today we really feel a huge gratitude, it is a great honor for us to open this wonderful Chagall exhibition with you.

I don't know if I can fully thank you for coming - after so many years of patiently waiting for this day - to see again, and for some, perhaps for the first time, to discover Chagall's painting.

He always worked hard. This was his most important day. As he said, nothing can be achieved without labor. This was his way of fighting for his ideals. He often asked us, his grandchildren, did we find love, do we have ideals? When you are few years old, it is quite difficult to understand the essence of this question. And only when I grew up, I understood and heard the message that he wanted to convey to us. Painting was for him a kind of prayer, awareness of his own "I", a struggle for artistic freedom.

Thank you for coming to take part in the opening of this wonderful, love-filled exhibition celebrating Chagall.

Bella Meyer ,
granddaughter of the artist

1. The quote is in the author's spelling

Exhibition of the little-known graphic heritage of Marc Chagall (1887-1985). At the exhibition “Marc Chagall. The origins of the artist's creative language "the artist's work is presented in the context of the search for the origins of his art

Chagall belonged to the generation of artists who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in an attempt to find themselves, their own imaginative structure and plastic language, turned to folk art. Chagall did not receive a consistent professional education, his first and main teacher was the natural environment - the Jewish, Russian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, French environment, "that living water" that "charged" and inspired the master throughout his life.

The real and incredible events captured by the artist are firmly connected with the earthly environment by key household items for him, signs of the place that have become characteristic Chagall's "passwords": from the naive sign of a hairdresser in Vitebsk or a milkman in Paris to the cross of an Orthodox cathedral or chimeras of Notre Dame in Paris, from simple embroidery to a seven-branched candlestick and the Torah, from a lopsided peasant hut to the Vilnius synagogue and the gates of the Jewish cemetery, from popular prints and illustrations of folk publications, itinerant musicians to the flags of the revolution. The artist argued: "It is not true that my art is fantastic! I am a realist, I love the earth!"

The basis of the exposition in the Tretyakov Gallery is made up of works from the collections of the artist's family: unique, never exhibited in Russia, works of the "family circle" - self-portraits, portraits of mother, grandmother, cousins, sister, wife Bella and daughter Ida, executed in the late 1900s - 1910s. In these works, the viewer is presented with a kind of autobiography of the artist, the chronicle of his family (At the window. Mother and daughter. 1908; Ring. 1908-1909; Model. Sister of the artist. 1910; Birth. 1911 and others). The engraved story of Chagall's life is depicted in the sheets of the series "My Life" (1922). A peculiar leitmotif of the exhibition is the image of his beloved city - Vitebsk, which is present in one form or another in all of the master's paintings.

From the French collection also came a group of works of the 1960-1970s in a rare collage technique (Triumph of Music. Sketch for a panel for the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Art Center. 1966, The Clown and His Shadow (Blue Violinist). 1964. Purple Nude. 1967. Anthem Embankment clock. 1968).

Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin presented to the exhibition "Landscape with a Goat (Liozno)" (1910), "In the Hall of Tei" (1910), "Room on Gorokhovaya" (1910), created in Russia in 1910, created in Russia in 1910, donated to the museum by Ida Chagall. Works of the first Parisian period, examples of Chagall's interpretation of contemporary French art - "Nude with flowers", "Reclining Nude" (both - 1911) - provided by the Sepherot Foundation (Liechtenstein).

For the first time, the Moscow audience will be shown the youthful albums of Chagall recently acquired in France, originating from the archives of Blaise Sandrard, a writer and poet, friend and translator of the master who introduced the young artist to the circle of Parisian avant-garde artists (collection of T. and I. Manasherovs, Moscow).

In addition to the original drawings, the exhibition also includes illustrations to Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1923-1925) from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, made at the initiative of the Parisian gallerist and publisher of the Artist's Book series Ambroise Vollard, from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, received as a gift from the author in 1927 year.

The famous "Wedding Service" (1951-1952. Ceramics, white enamel, painting) created by Chagall in honor of the wedding of his daughter Ida (private collection, Paris) and two marble sculptures for the fountain - "Fish" and "Bird "(1964. Collection of the Pierre Gianadda Foundation, Martini, Switzerland). The objects of folk art presented at the exhibition from the Russian Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg) and the Museum of the History of Jews in Russia (Moscow) will complement the viewers' idea of \u200b\u200bthe origins of Chagall's figurative system.

MOSCOW, January 8. / Corr. RIA Novosti Elena Titarenko /... For a very short time, only until March 2003, paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall took their rightful place in the exposition of the State Tretyakov Gallery / State Tretyakov Gallery /.

Several canvases, known to the whole world as masterpieces of the Russian avant-garde, made a short stop at home in the interval between foreign tours. Today the works of these masters are real "stars", almost constantly "on tour" in different parts of the world. Thus, Kandinsky's canvases have recently returned from Japan, where his largest personal exhibition in recent years has been successfully held.

As Svetlana Maslova, a senior researcher at the State Tretyakov Gallery, told RIA Novosti, in the Land of the Rising Sun, from the legacy of the first abstract artist, "everything that is in Russia was shown." In the spring, the paintings will go to the West - to Spain. Throughout the summer of 2003, the exhibition of Wassily Kandinsky will be open in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bin October it will move to Madrid, where canvases from Russia will remain until the end of January 2004.

In the meantime, metropolitan spectators can again on the Crimean shaft see the classics - the famous "Composition VII" / 1913 /, "Improvisation of cold forms" / 1914 /, "Troubled" / 1917 /, "White Oval" / 1919 /, as well as the work of Kandinsky late period - "Movement" / 1935 /.

Next to the permanent exhibition "Art of the 20th century" are Chagall's paintings of the Vitebsk period - the time of outstanding creative discoveries: "Above the City" / 1914-1918 /, "Lilies of the Valley" / 1916 /, "Wedding" / 1918 / are permeated with a quivering, fantasy reality. Three early works vividly illustrate the formation of the Master, who during his lifetime turned into a legend of 20th century art. In fact, these are iconic works - imbued with a powerful temperament, they are marked by the unique style of Chagall that was finally formed by that time.

In March, Chagall's solo exhibition will open in Paris, at the National Gallery of the Grand Palais. In July, the same extensive exposition will unfold at the San Francisco Museum / USA /. But some canvases from the State Tretyakov Gallery collection have already left for Amsterdam for the exhibition "Seven Panels by Marc Chagall," Maslova said.

The Jewish Historical Museum displays within its walls "percussion" exhibits from the Tretyakov Gallery - seven large-format panels painted in 1920 to decorate the interior of the Jewish Chamber Theater in Moscow. "Introduction to the Jewish Theater", "Love on Stage" and the frieze "Wedding Meal", as well as the famous allegories of Music, Dance, Theater and Literature - all these canvases were created two years before the artist left Russia for good.

Soon after the closure of the theater, the panels also ended up "in exile": having spent more than half a century in the storerooms, they were re-published only in 1991. The team of restorers of the State Tretyakov Gallery under the leadership of Alexei Kovalev, having done a titanic work, actually saved the panel, and each time their demonstration becomes a holiday for the Tretyakov Gallery.

And the artists themselves - Wassily Kandinsky / 1866-1944 / and Marc Chagall / 1887-1985 /, who left Russia in the early 1920s, and their works had a difficult fate. Two pioneers in art, standing on a par with such titans of the twentieth century as Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova, Vladimir Tatlin, have long been more a legend than a reality in their homeland. Their legacy, which is kept in Russian museums, was virtually excluded from the country's artistic life in the USSR.

On the contrary, they were known abroad even before the First World War, and in the 1930s real fame came to them. Both knew persecution: Kandinsky was forced to leave Germany in 1933, where he taught at the famous Bauhaus school, actively exhibited and even took citizenship. Until the end of his days, he lived in Paris, where Chagall settled in 1923.

In 1937, they were united in absentia in Germany by the exhibition "Degenerate Art", organized by the Nazis in Munich. Soon Chagall had to leave Europe altogether - during the Holocaust he escaped to the United States.

Like other leaders of the innovative Russian art of the twentieth century, both artists were hushed up in their homeland, which aggravated their departure to emigration. The official ideologues of the USSR kept their paintings under lock and key, away from the viewer's eyes, until the entire old system of values \u200b\u200bcollapsed. Although the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage and the Russian Museum have long possessed magnificent collections of works by Kandinsky and Chagall, belonging to the most valued early period, for decades they "lay hidden" - the work of emigrants was not allowed to propagate.

It was only in 1973, when Chagall's fame was truly worldwide, that his exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery was "opened" - then the author himself came to Russia for the first time since 1922. Kandinsky was exhibited widely only in 1989, although some of his works flashed at the thundering exhibition "Moscow-Paris" / 1981 /.

Until 1985, the tiny hall of the State Tretyakov Gallery seemed to be a breakthrough into the unknown space of the avant-garde, where the works of the greatest masters of the era were exhibited not in dozens, which would be quite realistic given the wealth of funds, but one or two pictures each.

At the same time, back in the 70s, museums of the USSR began to provide the works of "forbidden" painters for foreign exhibitions, which bore the following characteristic names: "Kandinsky. Thirty paintings from Soviet museums" / Paris, 1979 /.

The true scale of these artists was shown by personal retrospectives held in Moscow and Leningrad during the post-perestroika wave of filling in the gaps in the history of Russian art. Then avant-garde exhibitions became an event, collecting huge lines.

However, for about 10 years it has not been possible to get to know Chagall or Kandinsky in earnest in Russia: even after the opening of the 20th century exposition, the Tretyakov Gallery more often than in his homeland shows the legacy of the "greats" abroad, where it is widely known and in demand. Evoking ever-growing piety, both masters were exhibited in Europe and the United States both in the 10s of the twentieth century and in the 20s, and since the beginning of the 30s, artists from Russia willingly accepted the best museums and galleries of the Old and New World / were no exception even the war years /.

At the same time, large collectors began to buy Kandinsky's works - Solomon R. Guggenheim and Arthur J. Eddy / USA /, Mitchell T. Sadler / Great Britain /, Willem Beffy / Denmark /. And already in 1937, his canvases appeared in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / New York /, and then in other leading museums of contemporary art - the Georges Pompidou Center / Paris /, Lenbachhaus gallery / Munich /. His younger colleague, Chagall, was not inferior to Kandinsky: his legacy is kept by the Ludwig Museum / Cologne / and the Basel Museum of Art, museums in London, Jerusalem, Paris, New York, Montreal, etc., and the Chagall Museum is open in Nice.

The number of private collectors with the works of these two authors is practically uncountable. Both masters were raised to the rank of national treasure in several countries at once - from Germany and France to Israel.

Outstanding representatives of Russian culture, Kandinsky and Chagall belong to the world art of the twentieth century, and their legacy is the "golden fund" of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and a number of treasures of the Russian hinterland. Their works are regularly shown in major museums in different countries. Recent examples are the international exhibitions "Kandinsky and Russia" in Switzerland, "Marc Chagall: Jewish Traditions" in Spain.

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The right to visit expositions free of charge in the Main Building in Lavrushinsky Lane, the Engineering Building, New Tretyakov Gallery, V.M. Vasnetsov, A.M. Vasnetsov is provided on the following days for certain categories of citizens on a first come first served basis:

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A retrospective by Marc Chagall (1887-1985), dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Belarusian and French artist, opens today at the Tretyakov Gallery. The Engineering Building on Lavrushinsky Pereulok houses more than 150 graphic works, as well as paintings, author's sculptures, works of applied art from foreign collections, Russian museum and private collections. The exhibition reveals Chagall's little-known heritage - drawings, watercolors and gouaches that are almost unknown to us - from early Vitebsk sketches to late Parisian collages, as well as Chagall's printed graphics - famous illustrations for the Bible (1931-1956) and La Fontaine's Fables made in etching technique (1950-1952).

"Self-portrait in front of the house", (1914), oil on cardboard glued to canvas. Private collection, Paris

The exposition at the Tretyakov Gallery is based on works from the collections of the artist's family: unique, never exhibited in Russia, works of the "family circle" - self-portraits, portraits of mother, grandmother, cousins, sister, wife Bella and daughter Ida, executed at the end of 1900-10- x years. These canvases constitute a kind of autobiography of Chagall, the chronicle of his family. And the leitmotif of the exhibition is the image of Vitebsk, beloved by the artist, which in one way or another is present in all his paintings.

Many exhibits were brought from France, in particular, a group of works from the 1960s – 1970s in a rare collage technique ("Triumph of Music. Sketch for a panel for the Metropolitan Opera", "The Clown and His Shadow (Blue Violinist)", "Purple Nude", " Anthem of the Embankment of the Clock ").For the first time, the Moscow audience will also be shown the youthful albums by Chagall recently acquired in France, originating from the archives of Blaise Sandrard, a writer and poet, friend and translator of the master who introduced the young artist to the circle of Parisian avant-garde artists.

"Wedding Service", (1951-1952), ceramics, white enamel, painting

The famous "Wedding Service" created by Chagall in honor of the wedding of his daughter Ida (private collection, Paris), as well as two marble sculptures for the fountain - "Fish" and "Bird" (1964. Collection of the Pierre Gianadda Foundation, Martini , Switzerland).

The project is included in the program of the Year of the French Language and Literature in Russia, thus marking one of the main features of Marc Chagall's work - its internationality. The exhibition will run until September 30, 2012.

"Anthem of the Quay of Hours", (1968), paper, collage, mixed media. Private collection, Paris

Text: Daria Gorshkova