The City of Liege is hosting a Marc Chagall (1887-1985) exhibition of international stature featuring 82 paintings, gouaches and watercolours and accompanied by a varied programme on the same theme at the Liege University. After exhibitions of work by Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin, it is the third cultural event in Liege devoted to a world-famous painter in the past 6 years. The exhibition provides an extensive survey of the artistic creation and development of Chagall, who for nearly a century expressed the dreams and expectations of people in a pictorial language combining metaphor and poetry in his work.

His work has been chosen to show how certain sources of inspiration were permanently present in Chagall’s iconography during different periods of his life and always returned as leading theme: Vitebsk, Russia and the Jewish religious tradition and his childhood. The exhibition is built around five important periods of his life: Paris, his return to Russia - including the well-known painting ‘The Blue House’ from 1920, his exile and creative freedom in Paris, his exile in the USA and finally his return to France and his Mediterranean years. The works come mainly from private collections and museums in Europe, the United States and Japan. An important part of the exhibition is made possible by the generosity of the Succession Chagall, which has lent a remarkable series of paintings.

The Marc Chagall Exhibition runs until 20 December 1998 in the Salle Saint-Georges, Féronstrée 86, Liege. For further information on the Exhibition, please call general information number +32/4/349.00.42 or consult http://www.ulg.ac.be/chagall