"LIVING WITH" CHAGALL
I wonder if I had known that there was to be a retrospective of Chagall in Paris starting in February this year f I would have gone to Roubaix in November last year ! (see WITH CHAGALL COLOUR IS MAGIC AND DARKNESS TOO (29/11/2012). I am pleased to have seen two major exhibitions of his work within a couple of months. In November, I was trying to reconciliate periods. Before he left France in 1941 and afterwards when he returned in 1948. I am still struggling with his last years - and there were many of them, as he died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (south of France) in 1985. The exhibition at the Luxembourg museum helped me to go further in my analysis. Once again this was a big presentation and there was not one work which I had seen in Roubaix. Many I did know but as Roubaix was still fresh in my mind it showed just how wide his pallette was. Not to mention that there were many private collectors too. «A life between war and peace» as the exhibition is titled, describes