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MARC CHAGALL Etching Ecole de Paris

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MARC CHAGALL Etching Ecole de Paris
MARC CHAGALL
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]

Vitebsk, Belarus 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes

Les Ames Mortes / The Dead Souls - Plate 77- 1948

Original Etching

Title : Les Ames Mortes / The Dead Souls - Plate 77.

Technique : Original Etching on Vellum paper.

Plate size :28 x 21 cm / 11 x 8.3 inch.

Additional Information : This Etching is Signed in the plate "Chagall" in the lower left corner.
This plate was engraved by Chagall as part of the series Les Ames Mortes, printed on Vellum paper in a limited edition of 285 impressions. The series itself, consisting of 96 plates, all engraved between 1923-27.
The etchings were comissioned by Ambroise Vollard in 1923 as illustrations for the text by Nicolas Gogol.
It was published by Edition Teriade, Paris 1948, in collaboration of Ida Chagall.

Literature : The Illustrated Books of Marc Chagall by Patrick Cramer, published by Galerie Cramer, Geneva 1995.
Referance: Cramer 17.

Condition : Good condition. Paper is fixed to the matting at the edges. Discoloration of the margins caused through former matting.