Plate One, from Dead Souls

1921–1922

Autobiography "My Life"

While awaiting an exit visa, he wrote his autobiography, My Life.

1922

Emigration from Soviet Russia

In 1922 he left with his family for Lithuania, where an exhibition of his work was held in Kaunas, and from there went on to Germany.

1923

Travel: France

1923

Beginning of the Collaboration with Ambroise Vollard

Back in Paris, he established a business relationship with the art dealer Ambroise Vollard and began creating etchings for illustrated books — Gogol's Dead Souls, the Bible, and the fables of La Fontaine.

1926

First Exhibition in the United States

In 1926 Chagall's first American exhibition, of about 100 works, was held at the Reinhardt Galleries in New York; the artist himself did not attend the opening.