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MARC CHAGALL Hand Colored Etching Unique Bible

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

Josue and the Stone of Sichem - 1956
Original Hand Signed and Hand Numbred Etching with Hand Coloring in Watercolor!!!

Title : Josue and the Stone of Sichem

Technique : Original Hand Colored Etching with full margin on Vellum d'Arches paper

Paper size : 53,5 x 39 cm / 20.9 x 15.35 in

Image size : 32,5 x 23.5 cm / 12.8 x 9.25 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 "36/100".
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.
Chagall printed only 100 proofs/examplares 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 248, fully illustrated on page 151.

Condition : Excellent Condition.