The Lovers
Marc Chagall
1913–14 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art
Fairy-tale details of a Russian town can be seen through the window of Chagall's imaginary scene of his room in Vitebsk, painted in Paris. The lovers represent the artist with his fiancée, Bella Rosenfeld. Mainly self-taught, Chagall developed a unique style that blends sentiment and fantasy—an effect the poet Guillaume Apollinaire called "supernatural."
- Artist
- Marc Chagall
- Date
- 1913–14
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
