Chagall

From a French surname of Hebrew origin.

• enPR: shə-gälʹ, shə-gălʹ

Chagall (plural Chagalls)

1. An artwork, or a copy of one, by the famous artist Marc Chagall.
   • 2013 June 29, “Of mice and Manet”, in The Economist‎:

     has previously shown that Java sparrows are able to distinguish cubist paintings from impressionist and Japanese ones, and that pigeons can tell a Chagall from a Van Gogh, as well as discriminating between the Japanese school and the impressionist.

   • 1973, Anne-Marie Stein, George Carpozi, Three Picassos Before Breakfast: Memoirs of an Art Forger's Wife‎, Hawthorne Books, page 46:

     For the next two weeks David worked resolutely at the drawing board turning out Chagalls in crayon, watercolor, and gouache, and he even experimented boldly in oils.

Chagall

1. A surname from French; (art) used specifically of Marc Chagall (1887–1985), a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin, renown for his use of colors and as a pioneer of modernism, incorporating elements of symbolism, fauvism, and cubism.
   • 2014, James A. Levine, Bingo's Run, New York: Spiegel & Grau, page 100:

     “What's tha most monay for a paintin' eva?” ¶ She smiled. “Well, last month I sold a Braque for two million and a Chagall oil for four million.  ”

   • 2003 April 23, Sarah Bardem, “The French collections”, in The Guardian‎:

     Images of flying brides, goats, acrobats and musicians recur again and again in the work of Chagall, each time reworked through the colour spectrum in a world at once harmonious and spiritual.

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