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MARC CHAGALL HAND COLORED Etching Bible Watercolor

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MARC CHAGALL HAND COLORED Etching Bible Watercolor
MARC CHAGALL
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes

Abraham crying Sara - 1956
Original Hand Signed and Hand Numbered Etching with Hand Coloring in Watercolor!!!

Title : Abraham crying Sara.

Technique : Original Hand Colored Etching and Watercolor on Vellum d'Arches paper.

Paper size : 53.5 x 39 cm / 20.9 x 15.35 in

Image size : 29,5 x 24 cm / 11.6 x 9.5 in

Additional Information : This Etching is HAND SIGNED in pencil by Marc Chagall with his initials "M.CH" at the lower right margin.
The work is also Hand Numbered in pencil at the lower left margin "84/100".
The Etching is also signed in the plate by the artist "Chagall" at the lower right corner of the image.
This beautiful etching was printed in 1956 as part of the series "Bible" that included 105 different original etchings that described scenes from the Bible.
It was printed by edition Verve, Paris. The paper bears the Arches watermark.
Chagall printed only 100 impressions of each etching and HAND COLORED them by himself with watercolor.
In this way each of these hand colored etchings is an original work of Chagall, one of a kind!!!
The work appears in the catalogue raisonne of Chagall.

Literature : The Illustrated Books of Marc Chagall by Patrick Cramer, published by Galerie Cramer, Geneva 1995.
Referance: Cramer 29 and Vollard Etchings 210, illustrated.

Condition : Excellent Condition. Light discoloration of the outer margins of the paper from former matting.