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Article: Homecoming for Chagall; The Painter's Widow and Daughter Open a Retrospective in Moscow
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- The Washington Post
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- September 3, 1987
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The surreal, whimsical vision of Marc Chagall has been reawakened
in his native land with the opening here today of a comprehensive
exhibit of works by the Russian-born artist in the centennial year of
his birth.
The retrospective of 90 paintings and nearly 200 drawings,
lithographs and letters will continue for five weeks, allowing Soviet
viewers for the first time to experience the full sweep of Chagall's
dreamy landscape of smiling blue cows and old rabbis, of levitating
lovers and upside-down acrobats, of fantastic metaphorical depictions
of the Byelorussian ghetto in which he was born.
The show seems to mark, as well, an official Soviet reassessment
of Chagall, who left his ...