Self-Portrait with a Grimace
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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marc Chagall · 1887–1985
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...