Exodus: Bezeleel & Gold Cherubim

Marc Chagall (1887-1985, Russia/France.) Illustration by the artist called "Bezeleel and His Two Golden Cherubim" from the portfolio: "The Story of Exodus" by Leon Amiel, printed by Atelier Fernand Mourlot, Paris (1966.) This strong, colorful lithograph by Marc Chagall is from the 1984 limited edition of 1800 that has been authorized by Chagall. Reference: Mourlot 464, Cramer 64 XXI. This piece is facsimile signed, pencil numbered, measures: 23" x 17," unframed.

"And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, and their faces were one towards another.... And likewise he made the candlesticks of pure gold..." Exodus 37:9-17

One of the greatest names in the history of art is Marc Chagall. Born in old Czarist Russia in 1887, he lived to the ripe old age of 98. His passing came in his adopted home in Paris. Chagall's story begins with the Primitivist Movement of the turn of the century. He moved to Paris in 1910, where he studied the masters Cezanne, Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin. Drawn to the excitement of the Russian Revolution, he returned to Russia in 1914 and founded the Constructionist School in 1917. After two years of intense controversy and artistic conflict, Chagall returned to a dreamy fairy tale art form that is the modern forerunner of Traditional Surrealism.