The Praying Jew (Le Juif Priant) - Marc Chagall - Posters Frame:Rolled and then reconstructed in multiple-point

and then reconstructed in multiple-point perspective within a shallow space

“In his powerful and evocative painting

and the high-keyed lighting of stagecraft

This image of blazing flames obscuring what appears to be a skeleton in the foreground was likely influenced by the scenes of flames and human sacrifice in José Clemente Orozco's famous mural at Dartmouth College

The Praying Jew (Le Juif Priant) - Marc Chagall - Posters Frame:Rolled and then reconstructed in multiple-pointChagall often painted variants or replicas of works he particularly loved. The Art Institutes Praying Jew is one of three versions of this composition. He painted the original canvas in 1914, and when he traveled back to Paris in 1923, he took this painting with him. He learned upon his return that much of the work he had left in France had been lost during World War I. This prompted him to make two versions of The Praying Jew before it left his