Descripción
Poster for the annual exhibition “Painters, Witnesses of their Time” at the Galliera Museum in Paris. Lithographic reproduction made from a detail of a preparatory study for the 1937 painting “The Revolution”. Charles Sorlier, engraver.
Freedom, total and complete freedom.
And then the February Revolution broke out.
My first thought was that I wanted nothing to do with the “passport bureaucrat”.
[…] There was shooting everywhere. The cannons were echoing. Men were laying down their arms.
One after another, the other bodies swore allegiance to the new government. Then came the officers, the sailors.
[…] The K-d government was followed by the government of the pseudo-democrats. Then came the democrats. We were united. Failure. Later, General Korniloff tried to save Russia. Deserters attacked all the railway lines. On Znamensky Square, in front of the huge statue of Alexander III, people began to whisper: “Lenin has arrived.”
Russia was covered in ice.
Lenin had turned it upside down, just as I turn my paintings upside down.
Marc Chagall
