Les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Chagall. Antiquité The exhibition "Millennial Cities

The exhibition "Millennial Cities

né en 1919

They breathe love

bilingual text

in his eyes

Les Fables de La Fontaine illustrées par Chagall. Antiquité The exhibition "Millennial Cities"One of my most tenacious ambitions as a publisher had been to publish La Fontaine's Fables worthily illustrated. I asked the Russian painter Marc Chagall to illustrate the book. This choice of a Russian painter to interpret the most French of our poets was not understood. Yet it was precisely because of the oriental sources of the fabulist that I had thought of an artist whose origins and culture made this prestigious Orient familiar. My hopes were