![Marc Chagall, New York, 1942 -by Arnold Newman [+]
from: Exhibition Arnold Newman. Masterclass - RetrospectiveUntil May 20, 2012C/O Berlin at the Postfuhramt via lalettre](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0u2cmT9R71qcl8ymo1_1280.jpg)
Marc Chagall, New York, 1942 -by Arnold Newman [+]
from: Exhibition Arnold Newman. Masterclass - Retrospective
Until May 20, 2012
C/O Berlin at the Postfuhramt via lalettre
![Marc Chagall, Paris, 1934 -by Horacio Coppola [+]
[ref.: Horacio Coppola. “Imagema - Antología Fotográfica 1927-1994” (Buenos Aires, 1994)]
from LA](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljeyjb6Ugk1qcl8ymo1_500.jpg)
Marc Chagall, New York, 1942 -by Arnold Newman [+]
from: Exhibition Arnold Newman. Masterclass - Retrospective
Until May 20, 2012
C/O Berlin at the Postfuhramt via lalettre
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© Philippe Halsman, ca. 1951, Portrait of Marc Chagall
This one is, again, especially for Monsieur Chagalov. Thanks for your help!
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” (Marc Chagall)
Chagall by Blaise Cendrars
from the “19 poèmes élastiques” of Blaise Cendrars (1919), in “Du monde entier - Poésies complètes 1912-1924” (Gallimard, 2004)
followed by the translation of John Dos Pasos, in James J. Sweeney, “Marc Chagall” (Ayer Publishing, 1970)
Portrait
Il dort
Il est éveillé
Tout à coup, il peint
Il prend une église et peint avec une église
Il prend une vache et peint avec une vache
Avec une sardine
Avec des têtes, des mains, des couteaux
Il peint avec un nerf de bœuf
Il peint avec toutes les sales passions d’une petite ville juive
Avec toute la sexualité exacerbée de la province russe
Pour la France
Sans sensualité
Il peint avec ses cuisses
Il a les yeux au cul
Et c’est tout à coup votre portrait
C’est toi lecteur
C’est moi
C’est lui
C’est sa fiancée
C’est l’épicière du coin
La vachère
La sage-femme
Il y a des baquets de sang
On y lave les nouveau-nés
Des ciels de folie
Bouches de modernité
La Tour en tire-bouchon
Des mains
Le Christ
Le Christ, c’est lui
Il a passé son enfance sur la Croix
Il se suicide tous les jours
Tout à coup, il ne peint plus
Il était éveillé
Il dort maintenant
Il s’étrangle avec sa cravate
Chagall est étonné de vivre encore.
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Portrait
(trans. by John Dos Pasos)He’s asleep
He’s awake
Right away he’s painting
He grabs a church and paints with the church
He grabs a cow and paints with the cow
With a sardine
With heads, hands, knives
He paints with an oxtail
With all the dirty passions of a little Jewish town
With all the exacerbated sexuality of provincial Russia
For France
Without sensuality
He paints with his hips
He has eyes in his hinder parts
Suddently it’s your portrait
It’s you gentle portrait
It’s you gentle reader
It’s me
It’s him
It’s his betrothed
It’s the corner grocer
The girl who brings home the cows
The midwife
There are puddles of blood
They are washing newborn babies in them
Skies gone mad
The latest thing in mouths
The corkscrew Tower
Hands
Christ
He’s Christ himself
He passed his childhood on the cross
He cuts his own throat every day
Suddenly he’s not painting any more
He was awake
But now he’s asleep
He’s choking on his cravat
Chagall is astonished to be still alive.
Marc Chagall, New York, 1943 -by Philippe Halsman
via heritage
Chagall, atelier des Gobelins, Paris 1964 -by Izis
via sotheby’s
Marc Chagall, 1950 -by Philippe Halsman
via fineart
Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso, St. Paul de Vence, 1955 -by Philippe Halsman
via artnet
Marc and Bella Chagall, Paris 1933 -by André Kertész
via PdP
Ida Chagall and her portrait by Marc Chagall, 1945 -by Lotte Jacobi
via G.A.
About the portrait of Marc Chagall with Ida:
She (Lotte Jacobi) shot the portrait of Chagall and his daughter Ida at a time when she experienced artistic differences after moving to New York. After seeing her images, Chagall told Jacobi that he realized that photography could indeed be a fine art form, as opposed to simple snapshots. For Jacobi, this was a rewarding experience and renewed her confidence in how she viewed herself and her work.
—Lynne Eodice, 2004 (in shutterbug)
Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923 -by Hugo Erfurth
Hugo Erfurth, Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923
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Marc Chagall, 1940 -by Roman Vishniac
via Langhans
