This picture-book biography of painter Marc Chagall illustrates how a childhood spent in close observation of family, religious ritual and his small Russian village became fodder for his glorious ...

Jackie Wullschlager, chief art critic for the Financial Times, titles her mammoth new book simply “Chagall: A Biography” (Alfred A. Knopf, $40, 582 pages, illus.), but it is likely to be the Chagall ...

In his book, he paints portraits of them: “No two Russian Jewish painters on Montparnasse were as different as Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine,” adding that “Soutine did not engage with symbols and ...

Schocken Books, 256 pages, $19.95. What are we supposed to do with Marc Chagall? Picasso admired him as a colorist, but, on the whole, Chagall is not remembered for his painterly technique. People ...