Lot 248
  • 248

Marc Chagall

Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 GBP
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Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • peasant with a violin (mourlot 551)
  • Image: 294 by 223mm, 11 5/8 by 8 3/4 in
  • Sheet: 575 by 420mm; 22 5/8 by 16 1/2 in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1968, signed in pencil, inscribed épreuve d'artiste XVI/ XXV (aside from the edition of 50), printed by Mourlot, on Arches wove paper, with full margins, in good condition apart from a thin band of cellotape-staining along the extreme upper edge of sheet verso showing partly through recto, very pale light-staining

Condition

In good condition as catalogued. The cello-tape-staining is quite severe but only along the outer edge of sheet. It is mainly verso but showing through recto.
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