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Marc Chagall was among the most prominent 20th century
modern masters artists. Chagall stands out as an artistic genius. Even
Pablo Picasso, who had little regard for Chagall’s capricious nature, once
commented after the death of Henri Matisse, "There is only one great colorist left and it is Marc Chagall." Though Chagall
is classified with the School
of Paris more than any other great modernist artist,
he never joined a movement, nor can he be associated to any particular "ism",
unlike Pablo Picasso. Indeed, Chagall stands out as one of the most original
artists of his age. Overall, Chagall’s gemlike primary and secondary colors,
combining different techniques, convey a fairytale or fable-like quality.
Using a rich memory of images from his village life in native Russia, he was able to construct a mythological
world of dreamlike unreality. The pictorial symbols he created both enchant
and captivate the viewer’s imagination. His heartfelt recollections of
village life, presented in unnatural juxtapositions and magical color,
imbue the works with an air of yearning, nostalgia and childlike wonderment.
Chagall was a romantic, and his flying figures will forever embody his
ideals about love.
No artist is as famous for color lithography
as Chagall – an art form he took to the highest level of aesthetic achievement.
Working side by side with the great atelier of Paris, the Mourlot Studio, Chagall created graphics that have become
as prized by connoisseurs and museums as his paintings. Today, Chagall’s
graphic collections stand as one of the greatest bodies of fine print-making
in the history of art.
Marc Chagall’s involvement with printmaking dates to 1922
and his return to Berlin after
World War I. In the course of trying to recover the paintings he had left
behind with Sturm Gallery’s director Herwarth Walden
in 1914, Walter Feilchenfeldt, the director of
the Cassirer Gallery, offered to publish Marc Chagall’s then
recently completed autobiography Mein Leiben (My Life) to be illustrated with etchings. Although
the book was never published due to translation problems, a suite of 20
Marc Chagall etchings was created by the artist in the medium of dry-point
etching depicting scenes and figures in Chagall’s newly evolved naïve-realistic
style. Chagall had never before been introduced to printmaking techniques
such as lithography and etchings before this and he fell in love with these
processes. Marc then experimented with woodcuts and lithographs. Chagall
felt that in these mediums his narrative flair had found its proper expression.
Chagall wrote in 1960, "When I held a lithographic stone or a 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." It is in this sense
that Marc Chagall made lithographs and etchings, and they have become the
stream that carries the message of his painting into the wide world.
Marc Chagall was 63 years old when he first came to Mourlot in
1950 to study in earnest the technique of color lithography
with Charles Sorlier. Already a world famous artist with nothing to prove, Chagall
nevertheless worked tirelessly to master the many nuances and subtleties
of this demanding medium for his own satisfaction. As the majority of his
artworks in lithography were created late in his career the character of
the artwork produced took on that of a dialogue between the artist and
his earlier inventions, giving his lithographs and etchings the advantage
of drawing upon a rich and personal iconography developed over a lifetime.
Marc Chagall died on March 28th, 1985, in Saint-Paul.
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Marc Chagall Etching
The Benediction of Ephriam - 1952
Hand Colored Etching
Hand Signed Original
Published by Vollard
Edition of 100
12" x 10" unframed
Plate 25 Vollard 223
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Marc Chagall Etching
Joshua Armed by God
1952 - Hand Signed
Hand Colored Etching
Published by Vollard
Edition of 100
11" x 9" unframed
Plate 43 Vollard 241
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Marc Chagall Etching
Joshua and the Rock of Sichem - 1952
Hand Colored Etching
Hand Signed Original
Published by Vollard
Edition of 100
12" x 10" unframed
Plate 51 Vollard 248
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Marc Chagall Etching
Le Chameau et Les Batons Flottants -
1952
Hand Colored Etching
Published by Vollard
Edition of 100
16" x 13" unframed
Vollard 134
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Marc Chagall Etching
Lot and his Daughters
Hand Colored Etching
Hand Signed Original
Published by Vollard
Edition of 100
12" x 10" unframed
Plate 9 Vollard 207
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Marc Chagall Etching
Songes Plate no 11
Original Etching & Aquatint -1981
Hand Signed Original
Edition of 50
12" x 10" unframed
Published by Cramer
Cramer no 112
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Marc Chagall Etching
Deliverance Of Jerusalem - 1952
Original Hand Colored Etching - Hand Signed
Published by Vollard
Edition of 100
12" x 9" unframed
Plate 95 Vollard 293
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
Bonjour Paris - 1972
Edition of 5
Original Hand Signed
28" x 22" unframed
Published by Mourlot
Mourlot - CS 43
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
Jacob's Dream - 1964
30" x 20" unframed
Proof 1/4 - CS 11
Published by Mourlot
Original Hand Signed
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
- 1975
The Half Opened Window
Orignal Signed Lithograph
Edition of 50 signed and numbered Japon Nacreous
Paper
Paper size 59 x 44 cm
Illustration 37 x 27
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
Drawing for the Bible - 1960 - Mourlot 245
Naomi and her daughters -in-law
Hand Signed Original
Edition of 50 on Arches plus 10 HC
17" x 13" unframed
Published by Verve
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
Drawing for the Bible - 1960 - Mourlot 248
Ruth at the Feet of Boaz
Hand Signed Original
Edition of 50 on Arches plus 10 HC
17" x 13" unframed
Published by Verve
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Marc Chagall Etching
Psalms of David, Plate No 11 - 1980
Edition Size of 40
Original Hand Signed by Marc Chagall
15" x 11" unframed
Published by Cramer, Geneva - 1980
Cramer No. 109
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
Drawing for the Bible - 1960 - Mourlot 251
Ahasuerus Sends Vashti Away
Hand Signed Original
Edition of 50 on Arches plus 10 HC
17" x 13" unframed
Published by Verve
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Marc Chagall Etching
Psalms of David, Plate No 24 - 1980
15" x 11" unframed
Published by Cramer, Geneva - 1980
Edition Size of 40
Cramer 109
Original hand signed by Marc Chagall
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Marc Chagall Lithograph
Notre Dame and
the Eiffel Tower - 1960
Hand Signed
13" x 9" - Unframed
Published by Maeght
Edition of 100
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Soliel Aux Amoureux
Marc Chagall Etching
Hand Signed
26" x 20" - Cramer
Edition of 50 - 1981
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Lovers Table
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
25" x 19" Mourlot
Edition of 50 - 1983
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Sunset - 1967
Marc Chagall Lithograph by Charles Sorlier
Hand Signed
Edition of 75
29" x 21" unframed
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Quai Aux Fleurs
Hand Signed
Edition of 75- 1954
Marc Chagall Lithograph
14' x 11" unframed
Published by Maeght
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Yellow Background
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
29" x 22" Maeght
Editon of 200- 1969
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The Orchard
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
29" x 22" Signed
Trial Proof - 1973
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Angel of Judgement
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
30" x 22" Mourlot
Edition of 200 - 1974
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Tribe of Levi
Charles Sorlier Lithograph - 1964
Edition of 150 - 1964
29" x 21" unframed
Charles Sorlier 14
Hand Signed
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The Painter at the Eiffel Tower
Marc Chagall Lithograph
23" x 17" Unframed
Edition of 50 - 1979
Hand Signed
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Bouquet With Blue
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
Sky - Signed -1984
21" x 17" Mourlot
Edition of 50
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Country Idyll
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
22" x 15" Maeght
Edition of 50 - 1972
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Evocation
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
25" x 19" Mourlot
Edition of 50- 1983
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Femme Aux Bouquet
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
29" x 21" Mourlot
Edition of 75 - 1967
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The Green River
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Hand Signed
Edition of 50 - 1974
26" x 16" Maeght
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L'Opera - 1959
Marc Chagall Lithograph
Original Hand Signed
15" x 11" unframed
Edition of 75
Published by Maeght
Mourlot no 102
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Marc Chagall Etching
David & Bathsheba
Hand Signed
18" x 13" unframed
Edition of 50
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Mark Chagall Lithograph
The Sky
33" x 23"
Pub: Maeght 1984
Ed. 50
Ref: Mourlot 1934, Hand Signed
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Original Marc Chagall
Lithograph
Le Message Biblique
Hand Signed
13" x 10"
published by Mourlot 1972
reference: Cramer number 92
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