The Uffizi flies with its heart to Paris. Displayed at the entrance to the Pitti Palace is Chagall's Self-Portrait with Notre Dame in the background

As a sign of solidarity with France and Paris over thefire that hit and damaged Notre Dame Cathedral, the Palatine Gallery in the Pitti Palace in Florence has decided to display from today at the entrance to the Florentine museum Marc Chagall ’sSelf-Portrait in which Notre Dame is depicted in the background.
The self-portrait was donated in 1976 by Chagall himself to the Uffizi.

The painting, which is temporarily displayed in the Statue Gallery of the former Medici palace, will be placed permanently at the Uffizi in a few months when the new rooms dedicated to self-portraits open.

“The Uffizi flies with its heart to Paris, to embrace ’Our Lady’. The exhibition in the Pitti Palace of this dreamy masterpiece by Chagall, who loved the French capital very much, is meant to be a physical, concrete testimony of our affection for our French friends,” said the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt.

Source: release

The Uffizi flies with its heart to Paris. Displayed at the entrance to the Pitti Palace is Chagall's Self-Portrait with Notre Dame in the background

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