
Et sur la terre... 1977. 15 original etchings. One of the 25 first copies with an proof on Japan Imperial paper, signed.
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Marc Chagall ─ André Malraux
Et sur la terre…
[Paris], Maeght Éditeur, 1977.
Folio (455 x 330 mm, In leaves, printed wrapper with flaps, publisher’s cloth boards.
One of the first copies with a proof on Japan paper, signed.
15 original etchings by Marc Chagall including 2 on double pages.
One of 25 first copies including a proof on Japan Imperial (n° 17), signed in pencil by Chagall and in the limitation notice, from an issue of 225 copies on Rives vellum.
Cramer, Livres illustrés, n° 103.
Maurice Rieuneau, « Genèse et thématique de Et sur la terre... », Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études françaises, 1981, n° 33, p. 219-234, online : https://www.persee.fr/doc/caief_0571-5865_1981_num_33_1_1910
Short illustrated tale set in the Spanish war, written by Malraux in 1939 and unpublished until the author found his manuscript in 1975. It was published at last in the year of his death and illustrated by Chagall.
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