1928
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1928 ink by Marc Chagall, depicting Hourglass, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a man floating above a village, his arms outstretched like a bird. A goat plays a violin beside him, and tiny houses sit below under a crescent moon. Chagall made this etching in 1928, the same year he wrote a book called *Time is a River Without Banks*. The title feels right—here, time bends, and gravity doesn’t matter. The lines are light, almost like pencil, but the ink gives it a soft, dreamy depth. Look up the technique of etching to see how artists scratch stories into metal plates.
Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic…
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