Which paintings represent Marc Chagall’s first major period in Paris?

Marc Chagall’s first major period in Paris, which spanned his initial four-year stay in the French capital, is often considered his most significant phase. During this time, he developed the poetic and irrational style that would define his work for the next 60 years, drawing inspiration from his memories of Vitebsk and childhood.

Representative paintings from this period include:

• I and the Village (1911)1
• Hommage à Apollinaire (1911–12)1
• Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers (1912)1
• Calvary (1912)1
• The Fiddler (1912)1
• Paris Through the Window (1913)1

In these works, Chagall utilized complex, resonant colors and whimsical, often inverted figurative elements to create compositions that resemble film montages or the inner space of a dream.1