Example sentences for: chagall

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  • The collection also contains some fine European and American paintings including works by Rembrandt, Dürer, Picasso, Chagall, and the Impressionists.

  • The five-tiered auditorium, with its incongruous modern ceiling painted by Chagall in 1964, holds a mere 2,000 spectators.

  • While the catalog does contain some potentially controversial material, such as Hungarian artist Rezso Merényi's Mouse Kiss , a 1922 etching of "a grand-scale vagina juxtaposed with two mice," the selection, made by the Kinsey Institute itself, mostly highlights the highbrow elements of the collection, such as a Chagall lithograph displaying some mild buttock fondling.

  • Look particularly for works by Marc Chagall, including his self portrait Portrait of the Artist with Seven Fingers, Pregnant Woman, and Man with Violin.

  • While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.


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