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The Promenade 1917-18

“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”

I don’t normally notice or recognise the redone google logos but today it seems, is Russian-French painter Marc Chagal’s birthday. Dying at 97 years old, he lived and worked on the periphery of a number of movements, from Surrealism to Cubism and Fauvism, and tends to be associated with the Paris School. There’s a pretty good biography here. I don’t remember particularly liking his work; an image search today proved that this is still be the case. A little bit weird as I generally don’t find myself being unattracted to the entire oevre of any one artist but eh. I do rather like this Yousuf Karsh portrait of him though.

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