Nocturne (Chagall)

Last updated April 17, 2025

Nocturne is an oil on canvas painting by Marc Chagall, created in 1947. It depicts a nocturne scene on a city, in the magical realism style of the artist, with some animals visible. Its a farewell painting dedicated to his late wife Bella Rosenfeld. It is one of three works by the artist now in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow.^[1]^[2]

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[2] "Arthive entry".

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v t e Marc Chagall
Paintings	List of works I and the Village (1911) Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (1913) The Poet Reclining (1915) Bella with White Collar (1917) Green Violinist (1923–24) White Crucifixion (1938) The Summer Night's Dream (1939) The Yellow Crucifixion (1943) Bouquet with Flying Lovers (1930s–1944) Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio (1945) Nocturne (1947) La Mariée (1950) Le Grand Cirque (1956) Bouquet près de la fenêtre (1959–60) Le Grand Cirque (1968) Scène de Cirque (c. 1970) Le Clown au Cirque (1980) The Painter and His Fiancée (1980) Soleil dans le ciel de Saint-Paul (1983)
Mosaics	Four Seasons (1974)
Windows	All Saints Church, Tudeley (1967–1977)
Museums	Musée Marc Chagall (Nice) Marc Chagall Museum (Vitebsk)
Related	Bella Rosenfeld (wife, model) Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art (defunct) Chagall (1963 documentary) Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977 documentary) 2981 Chagall

Nocturne (Chagall)

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