Original lithographic poster printed by Mourlot, for a 1967 exhibition of Chagall’s work, featuring the painting, La Sirene Rouge and sub-titled The Bay of Angels.

This poster was produced in 1967 to honour Marc Chagall in a solo exhibition at Galerie de la Marine, Nice, celebrating his distinctive visual language. Printed as an original lithograph, it embodies Chagall’s poetic synthesis of figure, motif, and colour.

The composition centres on a serene female figure wearing a flowing costume, her gaze both introspective and poised, set against a sky punctuated by a luminous moon, floral forms, and a stylised blue bird. These elements — recurring throughout Chagall’s work — are not decorative but symbolic: the moon often represents memory and longing, flowers suggest the fragile joy of life, and the bird evokes freedom, spiritual ascent, and imaginative flight. The figure’s calm presence amid symbolic motifs underscores Chagall’s belief in art as a bridge between the earthly and the transcendent, where personal narrative and collective myth coalesce.

Executed with lithography’s capacity for subtle tonality and layering, the poster’s expressive palette and rhythmic line reflect both technical mastery and emotional resonance. It stands not merely as an exhibition announcement but as a distilled expression of Chagall’s lifelong fusion of dream, poetry, and pictorial invention — a reminder that his art consistently sought to merge the everyday with the universal.