L'Arc de triomphe

Vaisilisa, art-curator

— Marc Chagall reimagines one of Paris’s most emblematic monuments through the prism of memory and poetic vision. The familiar silhouette of the Arc, drawn with a fragile, almost trembling line, is softened by the living abundance of a vast tree that seems to grow out of it. The architecture and the organic merge — stone breathes, leaves shimmer, and the air hums with quiet recollection. The composition, stripped of all excess, evokes not the grandeur of the city but its tender melancholy, its inner music.

This lithograph reflects Chagall’s profound relationship with Paris — a place that became both his artistic homeland and his symbol of freedom. The subtle tonality of the ink and the restraint of his palette suggest a moment between waking and dream, when reality dissolves into feeling. Here, the city ceases to be a site of monuments and becomes a realm of memory — personal, fluid, and deeply humane. Chagall transforms a landscape into an inner image, a visual whisper that speaks of belonging, nostalgia, and the eternal dialogue between man and the world he inhabits.