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FRIDAY, AUG,. 21, 1987
Soviets Mount Major
Chagall Exhibition
New York (JTA) — Fol-
lowing years of official
neglect by his motherland,
Chagall is — posthumously —
coming home. For the 100th
anniversary of the great Rus-
sian Jewish artist's birth, a
major exhibition of paintings
by Marc Chagall is scheduled
to open at Moscow's Pushkin
Museum next month. Long
neglected in the place of his
birth while the Western world
praised him as one of the
greatest contributors to 20th-
century art, this official
Soviet recognition of the
Jewish artist is regarded as a
tangible result of the new
Soviet policy of "glasnost."
However, plans for the show
have not yet been announced
in the USSR.
Poet Andre Voznesensky, a
friend of Chagall's who was
instrumental in arranging
the exhibit, told the press the
exhibit was "a victory of
glasnost and of artistic
democracy." Voznesensky has
written the introduction to
the catalogue for the exhibit.
Some of Chagall's paintings
have been shown in the Soviet
Union in the past, but his per-
sonal contribution to 20th-
century art has not until now
been officially recognized.
The Great Soviet En-
cyclopedia mentions him in
two paragraphs, in which he
is called a "French painter
and graphic artist." Chagall,
born July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk,
lived most of his life in
France, in Paris before World
War II and in the village of St.
Paul de Vence in southern
France in the years since. He
spent the war years in the
United States. He died in St.
Paul de Vence March 28, 1985
at the age of 97.
The show will include 50
paintings lent by Chagall's
widow, Valentina, 15 from his
daughter, Ida, one donated by
industrialist Armand Ham-
mer, and several from Soviet
museums which have largely
hidden Chagall's works away
in storage. Valentina Chagall
is expected to come to Moscow
to help with the exhibit and
to plan ceremonies.
Voznesensky acknowledged
difficulties in mounting the
exhibit. Authorities in
Vitebsk, he told the press,
refused to do anything to
memorialize Chagall. There
will be no celebration there,
he said.
Chagall's birthplace, a
small, wood-frame house that
survived World War II, still
stands at Number 2 Pokrov-
skaya Street. Voznesensky
Marc Chagall
said it was the home of a
Jewish house painter whose
mother remembered Chagall.
Voznesensky's attempts to
turn the house into a
museum failed. Many of
Chagall's works, including
the famous "I and the
Village," immortalize
Vitebsk.
As a youth, Chagall moved
between Vitebsk, Moscow
and St. Petersburg (now Len-
ingrad) developing his unique
style of art. After the 1917
Bolshevik Revolution, Cha-
gall was named commissar
for art in the region of
Vitebsk. He created art
centers and was actively in-
volved in a local theater
group that staged productions
for the Red Army.
When he moved to Moscow,
he produced sets and
costumes for the plays of
Sholom Aleichem at the State
Yiddish Theater, for which he
designed the famous scrim
that served as the backdrop
for many productions. The
Jewish Cameo Music Theater,
a current Soviet attempt at
Yiddish musical entertain-
ment, uses a copy of this
scrim.
Chagall emigrated to
Berlin in 1922, and then
settled in Paris. In 1931 he
visited Palestine, which
greatly affected his work in
terms of painting - Biblical
figures, and in his use of
light. Chagall returned to the
USSR only once since leaving,
in 1973, for an exhibition of
lithographs at a Moscow
gallery.
In a recent article in
Moscow News, Soviet art
scholar Vitaly Loginov writes
of his encounters with Cha-
gall. This article indicated a
reawakened acceptance of
Jewish artist.
Loginov wrote that Chagall
told him in 1963, "When I see