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Portrait of Marc Chagall

Pierre Choumoff · Public domain

Marc Chagall

1887 – 1985aged 97

Painted floating fiddlers, upside-down lovers and the shtetl of his childhood in colours nobody had used that way before. Worked for eight decades across Russia, France and America, and filled cathedral and synagogue windows alike with the same dreamlike blue.

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