Russian painter and engraver born in 1887 in Liozna (Belarus) and died in 1985 in Saint-Paul de Vence(France). From 1907, Marc Chagall studied painting in      St. Petersburg and in 1910 Chagall relocated to Paris to develop his artistic style. Inspired by Jewish tradition and Russian folklore, he develops his own symbolic art style. In the last years of his life, Chagall began to work in sculpture and ceramics. Much of his important later work exists in the form of large-scale commissions around the world for example the stained-glass memorial for U.N. building in New York City (completed 1964), the ceiling of the Paris Opéra (completed 1964 and murals for the New York Metropolitan Opera (completed 1964).

Chagall is a major representative of modern art installed in France in the twentieth century. We find in his pictorial forms of a more intense chromaticism, elements from Fauvism to Surrealism. However, he will always remain outside of any artistic movement, highlighting a very personal style that one could describe as «dreamlike chromaticism».