Marc Chagall - Dessins pour la Bible (Illustrationen für die Bibel). 1960
auction 63, Lot 85
MODERN, POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART
on 8 June 2018
Marc Chagall
Dessins pour la Bible (Illustrationen für die Bibel). 1960
Differenzbesteuerung
Folgerechtsabgabe
Chagall, Marc
1887 Witebsk - 1985 St. Paul de Vence
Dessins pour la Bible (Illustrations for the Bible). 1960
Edition Verve, Paris. Set of 24 colour lithographs on solid Vélin dArches (watermark), each approximately 35.8 x 27.2 cm, one 38.6 x 59.9 cm (52.1 x 37.9 cm, title page 52.2 x 75.8 cm). All signed and inscribed H.C.. One of 10 mentioned separate episodes hors commerce outside a numbered edition of 50 on this paper. Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris. The colour lithographs were published by Verve, numbers 37-38. Loose sheets in paper envelopes, in a red folder (included). Very rare.
Catalogue raisonné: Mourlot 230 - 254 Cramer (Livres) 42.
Provenance: Gallery Hermann, Essen-Werden (1988). Private collection, Hessen.
