(ANSAmed) - ISTANBUL - 160 works from drawings, prints, etchings and illustrations to become familiar with the intense and eventful life of Marc Chagall, the poet and painter who in his art represented the tragedies that characterised the 1900's with imagination and irony. The Pera Museum in Istanbul will hold a tribute, with the exhibition ''Life and Love'', to Marc Chagall and it is the first time in history that Turkey will host an exhibition that is totally dedicated to the French-Russian artist, friend to Guillaume Apollinaire, Alberto Giacometti, Jacques Prevert and Louis Aragon, who after leaving his native Russia, moved to Turkey, to later settle in Paris, passing through Rome in 1923. ''Life and Love'' is a collection of 160 pieces created by Moishe Segal, or Chagall, which embody his existence: his childhood home in the neighbourhood of Peskovatik in Moscow, that of his grandparents, his mother's giving birth, his parents, Vitebesk, the city he was born in. Dry-points, graphite drawings, or 'gouaches', showing scenes from daily life, before the artist - born to a Hassidic family - began to write poetry. It is a tribute to love, with delicate portraits of lovers, but also one to irony, with the lithographs (1920-1923) which Chagall dedicated to the Jewish world and its traditions. Then there is the originality of the illustrations of the stories by Jean de la Fontaine, or that expressed in the 96 panels that Chagall produced between 1923 and 1927 to go with ''Dead Souls'' by Nikolai Gogol, or the inventiveness of those that accompany the volume written by his first wife, Bella Rosenfeld. But the most captivating perhaps remains to be the great imagination that Chagall used in his self-portraits - with the unmistakable striped jacket, smiling or with a serious expression. The exhibition, curated by Meira Perry-Lehmann and organised in collaboration with Jerusalem's Israel Museum, will remain open until January 24. (ANSAmed).