"In Chagall's world lovers float above the rooftops: Paris frees itself from gravity to become a land of reverie."
A painter and printmaker of Russian origin (born in Vitebsk in 1887, died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence in 1985), Marc Chagall is one of the great figures of the École de Paris. Arriving in the capital in 1911, he found there the light and freedom that transformed his painting. In his work Paris becomes the territory of dream and wonder par excellence: lovers glide above the rooftops, the Eiffel Tower is woven into an intimate, spiritual cosmogony, and the city sheds earthly gravity. The capital is no longer a physical setting but an emotional space, where memory, colour and poetry rise above geography.