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MARC CHAGALL Hand Colored Etching Fable Fontaine

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MARC CHAGALL Hand Colored Etching Fable Fontaine
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MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes

Title: The Woodcutter and Mercury, 1927/1952

Technique: Original Hand-Coloured Etching on Montval paper

Paper Size: 36 x 29 cm / 14.2 x 11.4 in

Plate Size: 26 x 24 cm / 10.2 x 9.4 in

Additional Information: This etching is hand-coloured by the artist in yellow and red watercolor.
It is signed in the plate "Chagall" in the lower centeral part.
The work is part of a series "Les Fables de la Fontaine" and was printed in 1952 in a limited edition of only 85 hand colored impressions on Montval paper.
The total edition included 200 impressions of which only 85 where hand colored.
The series was commissioned by Ambroise Vollard in 1927. Chagall executed the plates from 1927 to 1930.
The actaul etching were printed between 1927 to 1930 by Maurice Potin for Ambroise Vollard but the series was only piblished by Teriade (for Editions Verve) in 1952.

Literature: Marc Chagall and Ambroise Vollard: Complete Catalogue of Etchings by Marc Chagall commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, ed. Charles Solier
Reference: Vollard 146

Condition: Good Condition. Some discolouration due to a previous frame.