Self-Portrait with a Grimace
Marc Chagall
1924/1925
Medium
etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 37.3 x 27.6 cm (14 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 57.8 x 45.3 cm (22 3/4 x 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus
Accession Number
1996.138.22
About the Artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Liozna near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire (now Belarus), grew up as the eldest of nine children in a devout Jewish family confined to the Pale of Settlement. His father worked as a herring merchant's porter, while his mother sold groceries from home, instilling in young Chagall a deep connection to Hasidic Judaism and Eastern European folklore a...