Chagall travelled all over the world as his reputation of a painter and illustrator of high repute grew. He created etchings for works including The Bible, Gogol's 'Dead Souls' and 'La Fontaine's Fables', later recognised as his finest illustrations.

In Paris Through the Window, Chagall's debt to the Orphic Cubism of his colleague Robert Delaunay is clear in the semitransparent overlapping planes of vivid color in the sky above the city. The Eiffel Tower, which appears in the cityscape, was also a …

By linking the martyred Jesus with the persecuted Jews and the Crucifixion with contemporary events, Chagall's painting passionately identifies the Nazis with Christ's tormentors and warns of the moral implications of their actions.

La Mariée, 1912 by Marc Chagall. La Mairée (The Bride) features a young woman in her bright vivid red wedding dress clutching her bouquet of flowers. Her long white veil covers her head and reaches down to her feet. In contrast, the background is a mixture of blues and grays.

The Poet, 1912 - by Marc Chagall. What Chagall was aiming at in meaning and form in the little portrait study of Mazin is made surprisingly evident by The Poet, a large composition which he felt obliged to carry out with precision. In the basic features of the composition and the buildup of the figure it follows the Mazin portrait study, but in ...

The love poetry written by Chagall in such works, and the tender elation (which matched his own emotional situation), peaks in Lovers in the Lilacs, painted in 1930. The couple, idyllically bedded down in a giant bouquet, are wholly immersed in the timelessness of love.

This whimsical turn of phrase allowed Chagall to transform an otherwise naturalistically rendered scene of Vitebsk in winter through the addition of a strange airborne character with a sack on his back, whose presence imbues the composition with a dreamlike otherworldliness.

During the winter of 1917-18, soon after painting the Vitebsk landscapes, Chagall created three of his most famous figurative compositions: Over the Town, and The Promenade. They too were painted in Vitebsk, and show that exuberant zest for living which went hand in hand with the new phase of artistic accomplishment he had achieved.

In Self Portrait with Seven Fingers, Chagall refers to the colorful Yiddish folk expression Mit alle zibn finger, (with all seven fingers,) meaning "working as fast and as hard as possible". That explains the extra fingers!

Masterpieces by Marc Chagall. The Birthday, 1887; I and the Village, 1911; La Mariee, 1912; The Fiddler, 1913; Over Vitebsk, 1913; Over the Town, 1913; The Promenade, 1917 ; White Crucifixion, 1923; The Praying Jew, 1923; Lovers in the Lilacs, 1930; Equestrienne, 1931; Solitude, 1933; The Three Candles, 1938; Midsummer Night's Dream 1939