Marc Chagall

MARC CHAGALL (Belarus, 1887 - France, 1985).
Stamp sheet signed and dated 1965 by the artist.
Stamp sheet "The Bride and Groom At The Eiffel Tower" - Year: 1963 - France (France).
Signed in ink + postal envelope.
One of the pieces of the "Mail Art" collection that the painter and photographer Paul Martin (b. 1922) had at his home in Sainte-Foy. Thanks to his network of acquaintances in the art world, he managed to put together a small collection of philatelic sheets signed and/or illustrated by artists. (Attached are photos of two of the other pieces in this collection that are also dedicated to this character. This type of art "Mail Art" is all that art that is transmitted from the intervention or the postal medium. Inside the envelope enclosed in the lot, the sheet of philatelic stamps signed and dated by Marc Chagall was sent.
Enclosed: The envelope for sending the sheet in a transparent bag stamped with dry expertise stamp: "P. MAYER Expert 20 Rue Drouot Paris". Pierre MAYER was a recognized philatelic expert and was the specialist in occupation stamps. He was the one who bought this collection of Mail Art from the heirs of Paul Martin and who was selling these artistic preciousness.
In perfect condition.
Visible measurements of the sheet: 28 x 28 cm (there are a few cm more behind the passe-partout); 42 x 42 cm (frame).

Marc Chagall was trained in St. Petersburg, where he studied between 1907 and 1910 under the tutelage of Nikolai Roerich. After this period he moved to Paris, where he reached full artistic maturity. He returned to Russia in 1914 and actively participated in the cultural renewal of the country, but his disputes with Malevich and the revolutionary demands of linking political commitment and artistic work would lead him to leave for Germany in 1924. His Jewish condition would later force him to emigrate to France and the United States, finally settling in France at the end of World War II. In 1981 he received the Wolf Foundation Prize for the Arts in Jerusalem, and in 1997 a museum bearing his name was founded in Vitebsk. He is currently represented in the Guggenheim, MoMA and Metropolitan museums in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Fukoka Art Museum in Japan, the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Albertina in Vienna and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, among many other public and private institutions around the world.