Bundle- 4 Assorted Marc Chagall Stone Lithographs
Bundle- 4 Assorted Marc Chagall Stone Lithographs
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This is a bundled assortment of 4 Lithographs by Marc Chagall. The normal combined retail value for this bundle is $3950. Each piece is described as follows: Marc Chagall – Lithograph II Cover – 1963 Lithograph 12.75″ x 21.25″Unsigned LithographPaper Size: 12.75 x 21.25 inches (32.385 x 53.975cm )Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and AgeAdditional Details: First release lithograph book cover for the ‘Lithographe II’. published by Andre Suaret in 1963, with fold lines down the middle as issued.Cover lithograph for the Lithograph II book, published by Andre Sauret and printed by Mourlot. Mourlot number 391. The cover has no fold line running down the middle.Marc Chagall – Self Portrait – Frontespiece – 1960 Lithograph 12.5″ x 9.5″Unsigned LithographPaper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches (31.75 x 24.13cm )Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handlingAdditional Details: This lithograph was published in The Lithographs of Chagall, Volume I by Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo in 1960. This piece is number 282 in Mourlot’s Catalogue Raisonne of Chagall’s Lithographs.He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism’s “golden age” in Paris, where “he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism”. Yet throughout these phases of his style “he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk.”“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is”Marc Chagall – King David (blue) – 1974 Lithograph 11.5″ x 8.25″Unsigned LithographPaper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches (29.21 x 20.955cm )Condition: A: MintAdditional Details: Lithograph printed on Japon, not signed and not numbered. The lithograph is cataloged number 719 in “Chagall-The Lithographs” by D.A.P.Printed on Japon paper, very rare.Due to the deeply religious nature of some of Chagall’s work, it could be assumed that the king with the harp depicted here is a representation of King David of the Old Testament. King David was attributed with the creation of many of the psalms contained within the book of psalms. Seventy-three of the 150 psalms in the Bible are attributed to King David, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QPsa) attributes 3600 tehilim (songs of praise) plus other compositions to him. Nevertheless, there is no hard evidence for Davidic authorship of any of them. The psalms use the poetic device of parallelism which develops an idea by the usage of repetition, synonyms, and opposites. Marc Chagall – King David (pink) – 1974 Lithograph 11.5″ x 8.25″Unsigned LithographPaper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches (29.21 x 20.955cm )Condition: A: MintAdditional Details: Lithograph printed on Japon paper, not signed and not numbered. The lithograph is cataloged number 721 in “Chagall-The Lithographs” by D.A.P.Due to the deeply religious nature of some of Chagall’s work, it could be assumed that the king with the harp depicted here is a representation of King David of the Old Testament. King David was attributed with the creation of many of the psalms contained within the book of psalms. Seventy-three of the 150 psalms in the Bible are attributed to King David, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QPsa) attributes 3600 tehilim (songs of praise) plus other compositions to him. Nevertheless, there is no hard evidence for Davidic authorship of any of them. The psalms use the poetic device of parallelism which develops an idea by the usage of repetition, synonyms, and opposites.