Art Popularization: Marc Chagall – Master of Love and Longing

"After Matisse, only Chagall truly understood color." —Pablo Picasso’s words capture the legendary status of this Jewish artistic genius. In February 2025, California’s Clars Auction House drew global collectors with two Chagall works on paper (Winter: Christmas Parade-Four Seasons and Sunday), estimated at $300,000–500,000. Months later, his oil painting Bouquet with Fruit (1949) sold for £730,800 in London. How did this war-torn exile conquer the art world with dreamlike hues?