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Chagall, Marc, illus.
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
Nicolai Gogol. Les Âmes mortes (trans. Henri Mongault). Paris: Tériade, 1948
2 volumes, unbound as issued (15 x 11 1/4 in.; 381 x 286 mm). 96 etchings (some with drypoint, roulette, and aquatint) variously signed on the plate "Chagall," "M. Chagall," or "Marc Chagall"; 10 etched headpieces, 10 etched pictorial initials, illustrated register of the etchings on 10 plates, by Chagall. Original printed wrappers in glassine. Publisher's chemises and slipcase; some wear and soiling to slipcase and spines of chemises.
2 volumes, unbound as issued (15 x 11 1/4 in.; 381 x 286 mm). 96 etchings (some with drypoint, roulette, and aquatint) variously signed on the plate "Chagall," "M. Chagall," or "Marc Chagall"; 10 etched headpieces, 10 etched pictorial initials, illustrated register of the etchings on 10 plates, by Chagall. Original printed wrappers in glassine. Publisher's chemises and slipcase; some wear and soiling to slipcase and spines of chemises.
Literature
Artist & the Book 50; Cramer 17; Logan/San Francisco 103
Catalogue Note
Copy IV of 33 Roman-numbered hors commerce copies (of a whole edition of 368 copies) signed by Chagall. The first of three books illustrated for Ambroise Vollard, Les Âmes mortes was left unpublished at the time of Vollard's death in 1939. Chagall had worked on the fanciful etchings from 1923 till 1927, when the 96 etched plates were printed. Tériade eventually completed the project in 1948, using 96 of Chagall's 100 etchings. In all, Tériade published five books with illustrations by Chagall, the first three being the Chagall-Vollard collaborations on Les Âmes mortes. Les Fables de La Fontaine, and the Bible.