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Marc Chagall: Early Works from Russian Collections - Brief Article
ArtForum, May, 2001 by Barry Schwabsky
THE JEWISH MUSEUM
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Although Chagall's name now draws mostly polite disdain from art-world cognoscenti, he was once counted a major exponent of modernism. Anyone wondering why should look at his early work, with its ecstatic evocations of peasant life, a world suddenly seen as the crucible of an entirely new visual language. The Jewish Museum's senior curator-at-large Susan Tumarkin Goodman brings together fifty-six early Chagalls, including paintings, drawings, and murals (as well as thirteen canvases by his teacher Yehuda Pen), few of which have ever been shown in the West, giving skeptics an unprecedented opportunity to see this unfashionable artist with fresh eyes. Apr. 29-Oct. 14.
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