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MARC CHAGALL HAND COLORED Etching Bible Watercolor

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MARC CHAGALL HAND COLORED Etching Bible Watercolor
MARC CHAGALL<BR>[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses] <BR><BR>Vitebsk, Belarus 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes <BR><BR>King David Flees over the Mount of Olives - 1956 <BR><BR>Original Hand Signed and Hand Numbered Etching with Hand Coloring in Watercolor!!!<BR><BR>Title : King David Flees over the Mount of Olives. <BR><BR>Technique : Original Hand Colored Etching and Watercolor on Vellum d'Arches paper. <BR><BR>Paper size : 53.5 X 39 cm / 20.9 X 15.35 inch. <BR><BR>Plate size : 32 X 25 cm / 12.6 X 9.8 inch. <BR><BR>Additional Information : This Etching is HAND SIGNED in pencil by Marc Chagall with his initials "M.CH" at the lower right margin.<BR>The work is also Hand Numbered in pencil at the lower left margin "23/100".<BR>This beautiful etching was printed in 1956 as part of the series "Bible" that included <BR>105 different original etchings that described scenes from the Bible.<BR>It was printed by edition Verve, Paris.<BR>Chagall printed only 100 impressions of each etching and HAND COLORED them by himself with watercolor.<BR>In this way each of these hand colored etchings is an original work of Chagall, one of a kind!!!<BR>The work appears in the catalogue raisonne of Chagall.<BR><BR>Literature : The Illustrated Books of Marc Chagall by Patrick Cramer, published by Galerie Cramer, Geneva 1995.<BR>Referance: Cramer 29 and Vollard Etchings 269, illustrated. <BR><BR>Condition : Unexamined out of the frame.