Jewish Museum in New York features “Chagall: Love, War, and Exile” exhibit

PanARMENIAN.Net - Marc Chagall’s works are on display at an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Architectural Digest said.

Perhaps best known for his jovial, colorful works and large-scale installations in the Paris Opéra and New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, Marc Chagall’s darker side is finally coming to light.

The exhibition examines the artist’s life and work during the 1930s and ’40s, a time of both global and personal upheaval. “Chagall: Love, War, and Exile” opens with paintings created after his return to France from post-Revolution Russia and follows the modernist through his escape to the United States during World War II.

One highlight is The Fall of the Angel, which was painted between 1923–47 and is one of the largest easel paintings in his body of work. It hauntingly reflects the tragedies in Chagall’s life at the time, from the death of his wife, Bella, to the suffering of the Jews throughout Europe.

This and the other pieces on display—a total of 31 paintings and 22 works on paper, some of which have never been shown in the U.S.—are accompanied by letters, poems, and ephemera.

“The exhibition provides an opportunity to reevaluate Marc Chagall’s art in the context of his life,” said Susan Tumarkin Goodman, senior curator emerita, who organized the show.

The exhibition runs through February 2, 2014.