Title: When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, 1948
Technique: Original Hand Signed Lithograph in Colours on Laid Paper
Paper size: 43 x 33 cm. / 16.9 x 12.9 in.
Image size: 37.5 x 28.7 cm. / 14.8 x 11.2 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin.
This is a proof aside from the edition of 90.
The work is the 8th plate (of 12) from the Album “Four Tales from the Arabian Nights”.
This work was printed in 1948 in a limited edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions by Albert Carman, New York. It was published by Pantheon, New York.
There is a thirteenth composition which was only included in ten of the portfolios.
Note: Each composition illustrates a piece of text from one of four tales from the Arabian nights. This composition relates to the story of “Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman”. The text from which the image was created is – “When Abdullah got the net ashore, he saw a man in it and he fled from him, but the man called out to him from within the net…”
Literature:
1. Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1960). Chagall: The Lithographs I: 1922-1957 (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: Mourlot 43
2. Cramer, P. (1995). Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Geneva: Cramer
Reference: Cramer 18
Condition: Very good condition. Very pale time-staining around the image. Very pale staining along the left sheet edge. The colours are very strong.
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.
Title: Naomi and her Daughter’s in Law, from: Drawings for the Bible | Noémie et ses Belles-Filles, 1958-59/1960
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Wove Paper
Paper size: 52.5 x 37.5 cm. / 20.1 x 14.8 in.
Image size: 35.9 x 26.7 cm. / 20.6 x 14.8 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph 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 50, at the lower left margin.
It was printed in 1958-59 by Fernand Mourlot, Paris and published by Tériade,Paris in 1960.
It is one of 24 colour compositions created for “Drawings for the Bible” and published in Verve Vol. X, no. 38.
Literature:
1. Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1963). Chagall: The Lithographs II: 1957-1962 (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: Mourlot 245
2. Cramer, P. (1995). Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Geneva: Cramer.
Reference: Cramer 42
Condition: Good condition. Time-staining around the image. Remnants of adhesive along the upper and right sheet edge, verso.
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.
Title: Peasant with Bouquet | Paysan au Bouquet, 1968
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 57.5 x 41 cm. / 22.6 x 16 in.
Image size: 32 x 22.5 cm. / 12.6 x 8.9 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 from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin. There were also a small number of artist’s proofs.
This lithograph was printed and published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris in 1968.
The paper bears the Arches watermark in the right margin.
Provenance: Galerie Lochte, Hamburg
Literature: Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1969). Chagall: The Lithographs III (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: Mourlot 550
Condition: Very good condition. A small area of stray printing ink in the lower left margin.
Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with Aquatint on BFK Rives Wove Paper
Paper Size: 55.2 x 38 cm. / 21.7 x 14.9 in.
Image Size: 31 x 23.2 cm. / 12.2 x 9.1 in.
Additional Information: This etching with aquatint 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 300, at the lower left margin.
This work was printed by Georges Visat in ca. 1956 and published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris in a limited edition of 300 signed and numbered impressions based on a painting from the 1950’s titled “L’horloge à Vitebsk” (until 2006 in the Estate of Marc Chagall)
The paper bears the BFK Rives watermark.
It is stamped below the platemark “Grave par G. Visat” at the lower left corner.
Note:
Franz Meyer stated of Chagall’s use of the wall clock in his works, “In 1914, after returning to his parents’ home, Chagall had painted the wall clock as a mysterious item in the inventory of the world of his childhood. In a small picture of 1930, in which a woman is lighting a candle, the big clock stands out against the white and ochre wall as a reference point for homely memories…What does the wall clock stand for? First, it is an item of the mysterious world of childhood, a great, strange presence in the parents’ sitting room filled with an incomprehensible life of its own. This makes it a being belonging to a different stage of reality…At the same time it announces the hour and so demarcates the diffuse stream that governs all human destiny.” (Meyer 379)
Title: Bouquets with Blue Sky | Bouquets au ciel bleu, 1984
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Inscribed Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 43 x 54.6 cm. / 17 x 21.5 in.
Image size: 32 x 24 cm. / 13 x 9.4 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 inscribed “épreuve d’artiste”, at the lower left margin. Our impression is an épreuve d’artiste [artist’s proof] aside from the standard edition of 50. There were also 12 proofs printed in black only.
This work was printed in March 1984 by Fernand Mourlot, Paris.
The paper bears the Arches watermark in the right margin.
Literature: Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1986). Chagall: The Lithographs VI 1980-1985 (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: Mourlot 1024
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: The Angel with the Candlestick | L’Ange au Chandelier, 1973
Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 75 x 53 cm. / 29.5 x 20.9 in.
Image size: 52 x 43 cm. / 20.5 x 16.9 in.
Additional Information: This lithograph 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 200, at the lower left margin.
This work was printed in 1973 by Charles Sorlier based on Chagall’s original gouache in a limited edition of 200 hand signed and numbered impressions.
It was published by Éditions des Amis du Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice.
This composition was also used for a poster advertising the inauguration of the Musée National Mesage Biblique Marc Chagall.
The paper bears the Arches watermark in the right margin.
Provenance: The collection of Jacquelyne Branch.
Thence by descent
Literature: Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C. (1998). Chagall: The Lithographs V (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Reference: CS. 46
Condition: Very good condition. Pale, unobtrusive area of time-staining around the image. Very pale toning along the lower sheet edge and upper left corner.
