The House in Grey, Marc Chagall, 1917
Marc Chagall, portraitMarc ChagallBelarusian, French, 1887–1985

The House in Grey

1917 · Painting · 68 × 74 cm

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Where is “The House in Grey” now? Collection: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Unknown.

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since
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Accession number
500 (1982.26)

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  • Wikidata
  • Image: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza — Marc Chagall · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In the life of Marc Chagall

The whole life
  1. 25 July 1915

    Wedding to Bella Rosenfeld

    On 25 July 1915 Marc Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld were married.

  2. 25 July 1915

    Married: Bella Rosenfeld

  3. September 1915

    Service in the War Industry Committee

    In September 1915 he went to Petrograd and entered the service of the War Industry Committee.

  4. 18 May 1916

    Birth of Daughter Ida

    In 1916 his only daughter, Ida, was born in Vitebsk; she later became her father's biographer and a scholar of his work.

  5. 1918

    Commissar of Arts for Vitebsk Governorate

    In the summer of 1918, after meeting Lunacharsky, he was appointed plenipotentiary Commissar for the Arts of Vitebsk Governorate; he founded the People's Art School and an art museum in Vitebsk.

  6. 28 January 1919

    Opening of the Vitebsk Art School

    On 28 January 1919 Chagall opened the Vitebsk Art School, to which he attracted El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich, and also hired his first teacher, Yehuda (Yuri) Pen.

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