MARC CHAGALL

Bible, Paris, Tériade Editeur, 1958 (C. books 30)

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MARC CHAGALL
Bible, Paris, Tériade Editeur, 1958 (C. books 30)
the complete set of 105 etchings with hand-coloring, on Arches, two title pages, all initialed and numbered 24/100 in pencil, with full margins, loose (as issued), a few plates with extremely pale staining in the margins, tiny foxmarks on a few of the plates, otherwise in very good condition, grey cloth-covered portfolio box with gilt lettering. 534 x 390 mm.
album (105)

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A monumental work containing 105 etchings, the Bible is Chagall's most significant illustrated book comprised of intaglio prints, ranking alongside of his lithographic Daphnis and Chloë in conception and scale. Commissioned by Ambroise Vollard in 1930, the artist spent the next years etching the plates. It was not until after World War II that the plates were finally printed, first in Maruice Potin's atelier, and later at Raymond Haasen's studio.

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