After Marc Chagall

Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993

The sheet is complete and generally in good condition; the colors are strong and apparently unfaded (small indentation in upper left sheet edge, very minor bumping at left edge, approximately 4 inches from upper left corner). Front: scattered stains throughout, mostly visible only in the margins. Several horizontal creases affecting the image. Reverse: stains and surface dirt throughout; skinning across the top due to removal of old hinges. The sheet is presently attached to front mat with a strip of archival tape across the top sheet edge.
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This silkscreen was published before 1950 by the New York Graphic Society after Chagall's painting of the same title, now in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York. The artist presented this silkscreen to Mr. Herbert Goldman, who gave Chagall a retrospective exhibition in his gallery in Haifa, 1953. The item is accompanied by a lengthy greeting card (in Yiddish) from Chagall to Mr. Goldman and by an invitation to the exhibition with a reproduction of the painting. Chagall thanks Goldman for giving him the exhibition at a time when he feels he is largely forgotten in Israel.