The eventful life of artist Marc Chagall, a Jew who was born in Belarus in 1887 and moved to France in 1910, is brought to life in an exhibition displaying about 100 of his creations from the 1950s to the 1970s that are accentuated with light and colours inspired by the south of France.
These works, ranging from paintings to gouaches, lithographs to costumes and tapestries, form the “Marc Chagall, Light And Colour In Southern France” exhibition, which opens today at the Macau Museum of Art (MAM). This is the first time that Chagall’s work has been exhibited in Macau.
The exhibition, which wraps up the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s Macau Art Festival, coincides with Le French May – a festival that celebrates French art and culture – with the theme this year being southern France.
Anne Dopffer, director of the Marc Chagall National Museum in France, gives a guided tour of the Marc Chagall exhibition at Macau Museum of Art yesterday. On the left is Chagall’s preparatory work for his “Song of Songs” painting. Photo: Monica Leong
