The Praying Jew
Marc Chagall Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985
1923 (one of two versions after a 1914 composition)
On view — Gallery 391 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In his 1931 autobiography, My Life , Chagall related how, while visiting Vitebsk (present-day Belarus), the city in which he was born, he realized that the traditions in which he had grown up were fast disappearing and that he needed to document them. He paid a man to pose in his father’s prayer…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 116.8 × 89.4 cm (46 × 35 3/16 in.)
- Origin
- France