Marc Chagall Window
Moishe Shagal, also known as Marc Chagall was a Russian artist who lived in Paris for most of his art career. Although I don’t particularly like cubism and other modern art forms, I do like Chagall’s art work. It’s realistic enough, with disorder and abstraction to make it interesting – not confusing and chaotic like Picasso’s works.
After the death in a plane crash of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary General of the U.N., Chagall was commissioned to produce an art piece in his memory or honor. He created a large stained glass painting. It’s about fifteen by twelve feet (i.e., 46 by 37 decimeters). This souvenir sheet shows that window.
It’s called, the Peace Window. It contains many of Chagall’s frequently used images, symbols of peace and love. For instance, there’s a young child kissed by an angelic face emerging from flowers, there are depictions of motherhood and the people struggling for peace. There are also musical symbols related to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (i.e., Ode to Joy), a favourite of Hammarskjöld.
Chagalls wrote when it was dedicated, To all who served the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter, for which Dag Hammarskjöld gave his life.
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I vaguely remember seeing this window when I visited the U.N. as a boy. I didn’t appreciate it at the time. I probably thought it was just simple decoration, not unlike many stained-glass windows I’ve see in Catholic churches all my life. What’s one more, but with some modern, messy art? I’ve been to New York several times in the past few years, but haven’t worked in a visit to the U.N. I’d like to go back to see this window, to slow down and take it in.
Contains 1 spots: own 1 – 1 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
U.N. Art
✓ |
179 |
36c (nov 1967) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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