Chagall

English

From a French surname of Hebrew origin.

Chagall (plural Chagalls)

An artwork, or a copy of one, by the famous artist Marc Chagall.
- 2013 June 29, “Of mice and Manet”, in The Economist‎^[1]:
  [Dr Shigeru Watanabe] has previously shown that Java sparrows are able to distinguish cubist paintings from impressionist and Japanese ones, and that pigeons can tell a Chagall from a Van Gogh, as well as discriminating between the Japanese school and the impressionist.
- 1973, Anne-Marie Stein, George Carpozi, Three Picassos Before Breakfast: Memoirs of an Art Forger's Wife‎^[2], Hawthorne Books, page 46:
  For the next two weeks David worked resolutely at the drawing board turning out Chagalls in crayon, watercolor, and gouache, and he even experimented boldly in oils.

Chagall

A surname from French; (art) used specifically of Marc Chagall (1887–1985), a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin, renown for his use of colors and as a pioneer of modernism, incorporating elements of symbolism, fauvism, and cubism.
- 2014, James A. Levine, Bingo's Run, New York: Spiegel & Grau, page 100:
  “What's tha most monay for a paintin' eva?” ¶ She smiled. “Well, last month I sold a Braque for two million and a Chagall oil for four million. […]”
- 2003 April 23, Sarah Bardem, “The French collections”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  Images of flying brides, goats, acrobats and musicians recur again and again in the work of Chagall, each time reworked through the colour spectrum in a world at once harmonious and spiritual.