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Lot 66
  • 66

Marc Chagall

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • Celui qui dit les Choses sans Rien dire (C. B. 99)
  • etching
  • Overall size: 500 by 384mm; 19 3/4 by 15 1/8 in
The complete portfolio, comprising 25 etchings with aquatint printed in colours, with accompanying poems by Louis Aragon, 1975-1976, this copy signed in ball-point pen by the artist and author on the justification page, numbered 7 from the total edition of 225 (this edition lacking the additional suite on Japan), on wove paper watermarked ME, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, contained in the original Arches paper sleeves and blue leather box with title and artist's name in gilt on spine

Condition

With full margins, the colours fresh, in very good condition (apart from a minor mark on the title-page and one very pale foxmark on the title-page sleeve), some wear to the box.
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