马克•夏加尔（1887-1985）生于俄国，早年的犹太人习俗是他根深蒂固的想象之源。马克•夏加尔是现代绘画史上的伟人，游离于印象派、立体派、抽象表现主义等一切流派的牧歌作者。他的画中呈现出梦幻、象征性的手法与色彩，“超现实派”一词就是为了形容他的作品而创造出来的。夏卡尔仿若是看到过这些被描绘的绿色的牛、马在天上飞，躺在紫丁香花丛中的爱侣，同时向左和向右的两幅面孔，倒立或飞走的头颅、中世纪的雕塑。夏加尔出生于俄国维切布斯克的一个贫穷的犹太人家庭。他从这个家庭背景中，获得了极精彩的整套俄国和犹太民间故事，还受到了一种童话般的幻想感觉的遗传，并且深情地沉迷于犹太人的宗教传统。

这本书收集了100多个夏加尔各个类型的珍贵作品：绘画，书籍插画，水粉画等等。

In his images, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) liberated the world from the chains of gravity and allowed it to enjoy the enraptured freedom of poetry. In the process, he was inspired by the folklore of his White Russian homeland, Wizebsk, as well as his Jewish ancestry, Christian iconography, and the expressive forms of international avant-garde art, which he explored more intensively after 1911 in Berlin and Paris.

This special-price edition features an exclusive selection of over one hundred treasured works from all of Chagall’s creative phases: paintings, book illustrations, and gouaches, including works in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Tretjakov Gallery in Moscow.