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Greenwich, CT - David and Leslee Rogath, owners of Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, have announced that they will loan an
original work by Marc Chagall to the Museo d'Arte Moderna (Museum of Modern Art) in Lugano, Switzerland for the Chagall
Exhibition to be mounted there from March 4 to June 25, 2001.
The painting, "Le Grand Nu a la Corbeille" is an imposing (59 x 47 inches) oil on canvas, signed and dated by the artist in 1955.
It was exhibited in Switzerland, Germany and France throughout the 1950's and 1960s.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a Russian-born French painter. Born to a humble Jewish family in the ghetto of a large town, he was
raised in a Hasidic culture. He enrolled in an art school in St. Petersburg, and then set off for Paris in 1910. He returned to
the town of Vitebsk in Russia, married, and was appointed provincial Commissar for Fine Art. He left in 1920, and experienced
Jewish theater in Moscow and studied engraving in Berlin. After returning to Paris in 1923, he illustrated Gogol's Dead
Souls, La Fontaine's Fables, and the Bible for the publisher Vollard. After spending time "in exile" in
New York from 1941-1948, he returned and settled in the south of France, where he worked on commissions for the
Hebrew University Medical Centre synagogue in Jerusalem (1960) and the Paris Opera (1963) among others. In recent years,
David and Leslee Rogath have loaned art by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte, Sam Francis, and Andy Warhol
to major museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Museu Picasso in Barcelona,
the Royal Museum of Brussels and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
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