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Auction archive: Lot number 1077

CHAGALL, MARC, illus. 1887-1985.

Estimate
US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 1077

CHAGALL, MARC, illus. 1887-1985.

Estimate
US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables. Paris: Tériade, 1952. 2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated with 91 etched and aquatint plates only (of 100). Loose as issued in original printed wrappers, glassine, cloth-backed board covers, slipcase, and acrylic box. Board covers rubbed and with one cover detached, box lacking lid, else fine. LIMITED EDITION, no 169 of 200 copies signed by Chagall. The plates were printed between 1927 and 1930, and, like the other Vollard project Les âmes mortes, languished until after the publisher's death. "With the illustrations of La Fontaine Chagall entered into an entirely new sphere of his graphic oeuvre" (Sweeney, Marc Chagall p 74). Artist and the Book 52.

Auction archive: Lot number 1077
Auction:
Datum:
10 Oct 2011
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com auf Google Maps ansehen New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE. Fables. Paris: Tériade, 1952. 2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated with 91 etched and aquatint plates only (of 100). Loose as issued in original printed wrappers, glassine, cloth-backed board covers, slipcase, and acrylic box. Board covers rubbed and with one cover detached, box lacking lid, else fine. LIMITED EDITION, no 169 of 200 copies signed by Chagall. The plates were printed between 1927 and 1930, and, like the other Vollard project Les âmes mortes, languished until after the publisher's death. "With the illustrations of La Fontaine Chagall entered into an entirely new sphere of his graphic oeuvre" (Sweeney, Marc Chagall p 74). Artist and the Book 52.

Auction archive: Lot number 1077
Auction:
Datum:
10 Oct 2011
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90046 Tel: +1 323 850 7500 Fax : +1 323 850 6090 info.us@bonhams.com auf Google Maps ansehen New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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