 | Details:"Saint-Germain-des-Prés" When he was asked about why he left his Russian home country, Chagall used to say "I needed Paris for my artwork as desperately as a tree needs water". He seemed to have experienced the silence, melancholy and colourlessness of Liosno, Witebsk, and also of his family environment at the time, as suffocating. Paris became Chagall’s home away from home, and the Bohemian neighbourhood of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, the 6th arrondissement of Paris just next to the Latin Quarter, probably embodied the freedom he had long been awaiting. This painting reflects the neighbourhood’s colourful versatility, and is emphasised by his remarkable choice of colours: Who else but Chagall could have come up with the idea of combining a subdued purple with a bright orange and turquoise?
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