Marc Chagall was an early modernist painter, regarded for his vibrant use of color–a detail on display in Roses et mimosas (Nice et la Côte d’Azur), 1960. Known as one of the greatest figurative painters, Chagall was a perennial outsider, who used his art as a form of social commentary. Biographer Jackie Wullschlager wrote that the artist “invented his own visual language that recorded the thrill and terror of the twentieth century” (Chagall: A Biography, 2008).