Free After Museum Admission

As a symbol of culture, freedom, and modernity, the city of Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from around the globe during the early decades of the twentieth century. Most painters and sculptors, as well as poets and writers, settled in a vibrant area of Paris known as Montparnasse, which was sprinkled with art galleries, artists’ residences, and cafés. It was here that Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Moïse Kogan, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine established studios and discovered each other’s work.

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This exhibition includes more than 70 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by these émigré artists and their French colleagues, all of which were created in a unique atmosphere of mutual encouragement and support in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century. Interwoven throughout is the story of Chagall’s formative years in the French capital during the 1910s, his return to Russia during World War I and the rise of the Russian Revolution, and the artist’s triumphant return to Paris in the 1920s as a leading figure of the city’s thriving avant-garde.

	Exhibition Minutes
	Watch or download Curator Michael Taylor's 16-part Video Tour Podcast Also available in 1:10 Stop 547 Curator Michael Taylor Introduction 1:35 Stop 548 Chagall, Self-Portrait 1:15 Stop 549 Delaunay, Eiffel Tower 1:45 Stop 550 Chagall, Paris Through the Window 1:26 Stop 551 Chagall, Half-Past Three (The Poet) 1:06 Stop 552 Chagall, Resurrection of Lazarus 1:24 Stop 553 Chagall, The Smolensk Newspaper 1:42 Stop 554 Chagall, Over Vitebsk 1:31 Stop 555 Chagall, Purim part 1 1:21 Stop 556 Chagall, Purim part 2 1:21 Stop 557 Chagall, The Poet Reclining 1:21 Stop 558 Chagall, Oh God 1:22 Stop 559 Modigliani, Portrait of a Polish Woman 1:18 Stop 560 Soutine, Portrait of Moise Kisling 1:19 Stop 561 Chagall, The Watering Trough 1:51 Stop 562 Chagall, In the Night

Organizers and Support

This exhibition was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is presented in conjunction with the first annual Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), inspired by the Kimmel Center, on the theme of “Paris: 1910-1920.

The exhibition is funded in part by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Additional support is proudly provided by Bruce and Robbi Toll and by

Curator

Michael Taylor • The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art

Location

Exhibition Gallery, first floor, Perelman Building