MARC CHAGALL: “Paris through the window”, 1913 - oil on canvas, 135.8- 141.4 cm. - New York, Guggenheim Museum (www.guggenheim.org)

Raised in a poor Jewish family in Russia, Marc Chagall always felt in Paris like a stranger, a foreigner “impressed by the light”. Despite he exhibited at the “Salon des Independents” with the main artists of his era, Chagall always stayed faithful to his peculiar style, a style, according to his own words, “poetic without poetry, mystic without mysticism”. Perhaps for this obstinacy, during his last years his oeuvre is quite irregular, but during his first years in Paris he painted masterpieces full of mystery as this one. With its shining colours, strange figures and unusual composition, this painting by Marc Chagall talks us about a mysterious and indecipherable Paris in which nothing -or nobody- is really what they appears to be.