Paris Through the Window

A window opens onto a dreamlike Paris where the Eiffel Tower rises, a man floats by parachute, an upside-down train crosses the sky, and a two-faced man looks both toward France and back toward Russia, a cat with a human face perched on the sill. Marc Chagall fuses Cubist faceting with glowing color and folk fantasy to capture his wonder and divided heart in his adopted city. Now in the Guggenheim, Paris Through the Window is among his most enchanting works - memory, displacement, and modern marvels woven into a single luminous, gravity-free reverie.