My Life

By: Marc Chagall

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Paperback | 14 February 2007 | Edition Number 1

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"It is unusual for a painter to display in writing what are recognizably the same characteristics that appear in his pictures, and this is what Chagall succeeds, most delightfully, in doing."--The Atlantic

My Life was written in Moscow in 1921-1922, when Chagall was thirty-five years old. Although long out-of-print, it remains one of the most extraordinarily inventive and beautifully told of all autobiographies. The text is accompanied by twenty plates which Chagall prepared especially to illustrate his life story. Together, the words and pictures paint an incomparable portrait of one of the greatest painters of this century, and of the now vanished milieu which inspired him.

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Marc Chagall's memoir of his early life was written in 1922, published in Paris in 1930 along with many drypoints and watercolors, and now for the first time will appear here. Here, as in his pictures, there are many sketches of the simple world of his childhood in the ghetto near Witebsk-portraits of his family (a large one)- of rabbis and teachers-of the little village where the word artist had "never been pronounced". In 1907, he left for Petersburg, then for Paris, where he lived in considerable poverty, painted-while no one bought his canvases. He found impressionism and cubism alien but developed the expressionistic style which was so individually his. World War I returned him to Russia, to Witebsk for a little while, and then on to Moscow where he did sets for the new theatre- the phase which brings this first part of his autobiographical reminiscence to its conclusion..... It is a charming counterpoint to the twenty pictures which are threaded through the text- one in which naivete and nostalgia are combined and contribute to the warmth of feeling so openly evidenced. (Kirkus Reviews)

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