Chagall: Painter of Poetry

“Poet, dreamer, and exotic apparition . . .”—this is a graphic novel about the colorful life of modernist pioneer Marc Chagall

The artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) once described painting as “a window through which I could fly into another world”—which is just what he did. He grew up Jewish in the so-called Pale of Settlement (now Belarus) in the Russian Empire, relocating to Paris in 1910, at the height of the belle epoque, and then served an uncomfortable time as an art commissar in Bolshe...