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Marc Chagall artwork • prints & multiples • previously for sale Bible - Marc Chagall (plates), Meyer Schapiro and Jean Wahl (text), 1956

Chagall M.  | Marc Chagall, Bible - Marc Chagall (plates), Meyer Schapiro and Jean Wahl (text), 1956, lithograph 35.5 x 26.1 cm, dated 1956

Marc Chagall

Bible - Marc Chagall (plates), Meyer Schapiro and Jean Wahl (text), 1956
lithograph 35.5 x 26.1 cm, dated 1956

Provenance: coll. ir. C.J. Asselbergs (1904-1974), directeur van de Bredase suikerfabriek en raffinaderij Wittouck.
Literature: Julien Cain, Fernand Mourlot, 'Chagall Lithograph', vol. I, Monte Carlo 1960.

This so-called Chagall Bible contains 30 lithographs on vellum paper, of which 18 in colour (including cover and title page) and 12 in black and white, supplemented by 105 heliogravures, with texts in French by Meyer Schapiro and Jean Wahl. The Chagall Bible was published in 1956 in an edition of 6,500 copies and was distributed worldwide by Verve (Paris), Harcourt Brace (New York), Zwemmer (London) and Bruna & Zoon (Utrecht).


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