Marc Chagall, La symphonie des rêves. Œuvres provenant de la succession de l'artiste
Marc Chagall, La symphonie des rêves. Œuvres provenant de la succession de l'artiste
L'Odyssée. 1975. 82 original lithographs. Limited publication of 270 copies on Arches vellum.
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Marc Chagall ─ Homère
L'Odyssée
Paris, Fernand Moulot, 1974-1975.
2 folio volumes (425 x 325 mm). In leaves, folded over wrapper, each volume in publisher’s cloth slipcase.
Chagall and Greek myths.
82 original lithographs by Marc Chagall, including 43 in color (6 doubles and 37 full page) and 39 in black in the text.
Limited edition of 270 copies on Arches vellum (n° 17).
Fine large signature of Chagall in pencil on the limitation notice.
Cramer, Livres illustrés, n° 96.
Chagall’s awe was huge in front of the Greek landscapes that he discovered when he went there to illustrate Daphnis et Chloé in 1952 and 1954. "I have never felt anything like what I felt in this country, where each monument, each ruin transports the viewer’s imagination to three thousand years ago", he would declare in 1952.
Later, the project to illustrate Homer seemed obvious to him. Mixing lithographs inserts in color and black ones in the text, the illustration shows the narrative sense of the artist and his fascination for the Mediterranean, its ancient myths and its saturated colors.
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