CHAGALL MARC: (1887-1985) Russian-French Artist. A good, unusual signed 5 x 3.5 photograph of Chagall standing in a full length pose, with a paint brush in one hand as he works on a figure within a large painting which is rolled out on the floor beneath him. Signed in blue ink with his name alone to a clear area at the base of the image and again signed and inscribed to the verso, and dated twice in his hand, Antibes 1967 and Paris 1971. The original Kodak photograph bears the small printed date of February 1967 to the lower white border. VG 1967 was a productive year for Chagall, in which he worked on several stained-glass windows, and the Louvre in Paris exhibited seventeen large scale paintings and other works under the title 'Message Biblique'. However, the present image perhaps shows the artist working on his set design for a new production of Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) which opened in February 1967.