Title: Sketch for the Bastille | Esquisse pour La Bastille, 1954
Technique: Signed and Dated Oil Painting on Linen Mounted to Panel
Size: 27 x 34.9 cm. / 10.6 x 13.7 in.
Additional Information: This oil painting is signed by the artist “Chagall” in the lower right corner. It is also dated “1954” next to the signature.
Provenance: Private collection, Jerusalem since 1999. The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Chagall Committee from 8th October 1999.
Condition: Excellent condition. The linen is mounted to panel as described.
Title: The Automobilist, from: My Life | Der Automobilist: Mein Leben, 1922
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with Drypoint on Laid Paper
Paper size: 35.2 x 27.1 cm. / 13.9 x 10.7 in.
Image size: 20.5 x 17.8 cm. / 8 x 7 in.
Additional Information: This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at the lower left margin. There were 84 impressions on laid paper and a further 26 impressions on Japan paper. It was published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin in 1923.
Note: The work was part of Chagall’s important and renowned series “Mein Leben” (My Life), which included different etchings, all relating to significant events in his life. It was intended to illustrate his first autobiography.
Literature: Kornfeld, E.W. (1971). Marc Chagall – Catalogue Raisonné de l’ouevre gravé. Vol I 1922-1966. Bern: Kornfeld & Klipstein.
Reference: Kornfeld 26
Condition: Very good condition. The sheet is lightly toned. Minor, pinpoint foxing scattered across the sheet.
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with Drypoint on Japan Laid Paper
Paper size: 28.2 x 35.1 cm. / 11.1 x 13.8 in.
Image size: 21.2 x 27.7 cm. / 8.4 x 10.9 in.
Additional Information: This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right corner.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at the lower left margin.
There were 25 impressions on Japan laid paper a further 25 on Chine paper and 75 on Arches paper. The total edition is of 125, with the edition of 100 comprised of Japan and Arches papers.
It was printed by Louis Fort in 1924 and published the following year by Editions Albert Morancé, Paris. It was included in the portfolio “Le Portfeuille des Peintres-Graveurs Indépendants pour 1925” [The portfolio of painter-printmakers 1925].
There was also a later edition of 250 unsigned and unnumbered impressions.
Literature: Kornfeld, E.W. (1971). Marc Chagall – Catalogue Raisonné de l’ouevre gravé. Vol I 1922-1966. Bern: Kornfeld & Klipstein.
Reference: Kornfeld 39
Condition: Excellent condition. Remnants of hinging tape in the upper corners, verso.
Title: Study for The Circus | Equisse pour ‘Le Cirque’, 1957
Technique: Stamp Signed Gouache, Pastel and Pencil Drawing on Wove Paper
Size: 31.5 x 25 cm. / 12.4 x 9.8 in.
Additional Information: This gouache, pastel and pencil drawing is stamp signed by the artist “Chagall” in the lower left corner.
This painting was executed in 1957.
The composition is a study for a lithograph (reference Mourlot 499) which would later form part of the artist’s lithographic masterpiece ‘Le Cirque’ [The Circus].
Provenance: The estate of the Artist.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Chagall Committee from 28th May 2014, numbered 2014073.
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Wove Paper
Paper size: 75.6 x 59.1 cm. / 29.8 x 23.3 in.
Image size: 68 x 52.7 cm. / 26.7 x 20.7 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin.
It is also numbered in pencil with from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin.
This work was printed in by Fernand Mourlot, Paris and published by Éditions Maeght, Paris.
Literature: Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1974). Chagall: The Lithographs IV (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: Mourlot 620.
Condition: Very good condition. Pale staining at the sheet edges. Adhesive in the lower left corner.
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 92 x 72 cm. / 36.2 x 28.3 in.
Image size: 69.5 x 69.5 cm. / 27.4 x 27.4 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left margin. This work was printed by Charles Sorlier in a limited edition of 75 hand-signed and numbered impressions. It was published by Editions des Musees Nationaux in 1969. The paper bears the Arches watermark along the right margin.
Literature: Literature: Mourlot, F. & Sorlier, C. (1974). Chagall: The Lithographs, Vol. IV (Catalogue Raisonne). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Reference: Mourlot 596
Condition: Very good condition. Very pale time-staining around the image.
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Russian-Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin who was born in Belarus, at that time part of the Russian Empire. He is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. Born in 1887, his Jewish origins and rural upbringing in Russia had a lasting effect on Chagall’s life. His poetic mastery of dreams, memories and folklore dominated his work and commitment to original printmaking throughout his life. Chagall was 63 years old when he first came to Mourlot in 1950 to study the technique of colour lithography with Charles Sorlier. Already a famous artist with nothing to prove, Chagall nevertheless worked tirelessly to master the nuances and subtleties of this demanding medium for his own satisfaction. Marc Chagall fabricated a mystical world of lovers, musicians and artists in his work. He chose lithography as a print medium that could offer him almost unlimited painterly freedom to explore his world. “Something would have been lacking in my life if, in addition to my passion for colour, I had not been involved with engraving or lithography…Each time I held a lithographic stone or copperplate in my hand I thought I was touching a talisman. It seemed to me that I could put all my joys and sorrows in it…..Everything that touched my life through the years, births, deaths, weddings, flowers, animals, birds, the poor workers, my parents, lovers in the night, the biblical prophets, on the street, at home, in the temple and in heaven. And as I grew older, the tragedy of life within us and around us.” Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Russian-Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin who was born in Belarus, at that time part of the Russian Empire. He is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. Born in 1887, his Jewish origins and rural upbringing in Russia had a lasting effect on Chagall’s life. His poetic mastery of dreams, memories and folklore dominated his work and commitment to original printmaking throughout his life. Chagall was 63 years old when he first came to Mourlot in 1950 to study the technique of colour lithography with Charles Sorlier. Already a famous artist with nothing to prove, Chagall nevertheless worked tirelessly to master the nuances and subtleties of this demanding medium for his own satisfaction. Marc Chagall fabricated a mystical world of lovers, musicians and artists in his work. He chose lithography as a print medium that could offer him almost unlimited painterly freedom to explore his world. \"Something would have been lacking in my life if, in addition to my passion for colour, I had not been involved with engraving or lithography...Each time I held a lithographic stone or copperplate in my hand I thought I was touching a talisman. It seemed to me that I could put all my joys and sorrows in it.....Everything that touched my life through the years, births, deaths, weddings, flowers, animals, birds, the poor workers, my parents, lovers in the night, the biblical prophets, on the street, at home, in the temple and in heaven. And as I grew older, the tragedy of life within us and around us.\" Marc Chagall