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Marc Chagall

Yaacov Agam, Israeli artist, reclining on one of his works at the Georges Pompidou Art Center, June 28, 2003, in Paris, where his works of kinetic sculpture were on exhibit. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
May 25, 2026, 11:59 am
‘10 Agams in Iran’: The secret story of Israeli and Jewish art in the regime’s hands
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art owns pieces by the iconic master of kinetic art and several other Jewish artists. While works occasionally go on display, most are shrouded in mystery
By Rossella Tercatin
TOI’s Rossella Tercatin and Jessica Steinberg, superimposed over Andy Warhol’s Mao Zedong painting series at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art on display in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
April 2, 2026, 1:27 pm
Daily Briefing April 2: Picassos and other veiled masterpieces in Iran
Archaeology and religions reporter Rossella Tercatin reports on art collection amassed by Queen Farah Pahlavi and a Passover Haggadah that examines influence of Egyptian culture
By Jessica Steinberg and Rossella Tercatin
Two stolen paintings, Picasso's 'Tête' (right) and Chagall's 'L’homme en prière' (left) found in Antwerp are seen in this undated handout image. (Handout / Police judiciaire fédérale Namur)
January 17, 2024, 4:49 am
Stolen in Tel Aviv, Picasso and Chagall works worth $900,000 found in Antwerp home
The paintings, Picasso’s ‘Tête’ and Chagall’s ‘L’homme en prière,’ were purloined from a collector in 2010, along with $680,000 worth of jewelry
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Netflix miniseries creator 'Transatlantic' creator Anna Winger (Courtesy)
April 17, 2023, 10:01 am
Not ‘Holocaust distortion’ but creativity, says creator of Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’
Anna Winger’s series is based on Varian Fry’s real-life rescue of thousands of European artists and intellectuals; critics warn of historical inaccuracies caused by dramatization
By Renee Ghert-Zand
'The Father,' Marc Chagall, Paris. (1911)
February 18, 2023, 4:04 am
Chagall painting stolen by Nazis on display in New York after sale
1911 painting of Russian-born artist’s father was auctioned last November for $7.4 million, capping a tumultuous history
By AFP
This file photo dated June 11, 1952 shows Russian-born French painter Marc Chagall working in the Madoura studio in Vallauris. (MEUNIER / AFP)
November 16, 2022, 5:00 pm
Nazi-looted Chagall painting fetches $7.4 million at US auction
‘The Father’ sold by heirs of David Cender, who survived Auschwitz but never recovered the piece, which the Jewish painter purchased for himself after it reemerged following WWII
By AFP
This file photo dated June 11, 1952 shows Russian-born French painter Marc Chagall working in the Madoura studio in Vallauris. (MEUNIER / AFP)
October 6, 2022, 11:17 pm
1911 Chagall painting stolen by Nazis to be auctioned next month in New York
Oil painting estimated to be worth $6-8 million was purchased in 1928 by Polish-Jewish violin maker David Cender, who lost possessions upon expulsion to ghetto
By AFP
French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot poses next to an oil painting by Gustav Klimt painted in 1905 called 'Rosebushes under the Trees,' during a ceremony at the Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Alain Jocard/Pool Photo via AP)
January 30, 2022, 12:38 pm
France votes to restore 15 works of art looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs
Culture Minister Bachelot hails ‘historic’ bill; Senate approval still needed; among pieces to be returned are a Klimt and a Chagall
By AFP and ToI Staff
Repatriated art being moved, circa 1945-1949. (Johannes Felbermeyer/ Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)
August 20, 2021, 3:29 pm
NYC exhibit of Nazi-looted art tells a tale of Jewish loss and recovery
Opening Friday, the Jewish Museum’s ‘Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art’ is a testament to survival, despite attempts to eradicate an identity and culture
By Cathryn J. Prince
A woman walks past the ruins of the Great Lubavitch Synagogue in Vitebsk, Belarus. (Courtesy/Municipality of Vitebsk via JTA)
January 30, 2021, 1:48 am
Marc Chagall’s synagogue in Belarus is for sale to anyone willing to restore it
City of Vitebsk offers dilapidated building used by painter and his family for a nominal fee, but new owners will need to preserve its walls and restore architecture
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Sala Glass (center) with two cousins in Chrzanow c.1916. (Courtesy of Hadley Freeman)
May 4, 2020, 3:38 am
Mysterious keepsake box reveals shards of grandmother’s pre-WWII life
In ‘House of Glass,’ The Guardian’s Hadley Freeman writes a family memoir about her search to explain why her paternal grandmother survived, but didn’t thrive after the Holocaust
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The winning bid on Marc Chagall's 'Jacob's Ladder' was the lowest suggested by the Israeli auction house. (Courtesy of Tiroche Auction House via JTA)
January 29, 2020, 4:56 pm
Stolen Marc Chagall painting sells for $130,000 at auction in Israel
Titled ‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ oil painting size of a sheet of office paper by famed Jewish modernist was scheduled for a 1996 sale but was swiped days before that auction
By Marcy Oster
Amitai Hazan Tiroche with the long-missing Marc Chagall painting, 'Jacob's Ladder,' which will be auctioned on January 25, 2020 at the Tiroche Auction House (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
January 15, 2020, 6:46 am
‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ a Chagall stolen from Tel Aviv gallery in 1996, is up for sale
Painted at around the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, dramatic biblical work was recently found by a Jerusalem family among their deceased mother’s possessions
By Jessica Steinberg
Stedelijk Museum Conservator Meta Chavannes shines a flashlight on a Marc Chagall self portrait, in Amsterdam, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, during a presentation of results of a five-year research project into the painter. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
September 13, 2019, 4:33 pm
Amsterdam museum unveils 5-year research to uncover secrets of Chagall’s art
Artist remained remarkably faithful to eight pigments in his colorful works even as he traveled the world, sometimes painting over previous paintings
By Mike Corder
Altice founder Patrick Drahi, right, waits with company executives for the Altice IPO to begin trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
June 18, 2019, 5:27 am
Sotheby’s new owner Drahi — a French-Israeli tycoon with expensive taste in art
The Moroccan-born Jewish businessman is a billionaire said to own some ‘fairly spectacular’ works by Marc Chagall
By Lucie GODEAU and Julie JAMMOT
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