Le Ciel Bleu Salad Bowl by Marc Chagall

In collaboration with the artist's estate, Bernardaud has created a series of collections based on Chagall's work that explore themes of flowers, or lesser known works that focus on expressive imagery, or a recreation of a wedding set designed for his daughter, and finally details from a series of stained-glass windows commissioned for a synagogue.  Each series of hand-painted wares celebrates the artist's expressive and vibrant imagery.
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Throughout his life, the painter Marc Chagall demonstrated his choice of painting as a means of expression. "Painting is more essential to me than food. It appears to me like a window through which I am able to ascend towards another world", declared Marc Chagall. 

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Chagall is perhaps best known for his intentional use of color in his work. Sometimes only using as little as 3 colors per painting, he was still able to create dynamic, eye-catching scenes. According to French art critic, Raymond Cogniat, "The colors are a living, integral part of the picture and are never passively flat, or banal like an afterthought. They sculpt and animate the volume of the shapes... they indulge in flights of fancy and invention which add new perspectives and graduated, blended tones... His colors do not even attempt to imitate nature but rather to suggest movements, planes and rhythms."