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Lot 30
  • 30

Marc Chagall (After)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marc Chagall (After)
  • Femme de Cirque (see Maeght 1206)
  • Lithograph printed in colors with gouache and watercolor
  • image: 597 by 456 mm 23 1/2 by 18 in
  • sheet: 795 by 637 mm 31 3/8 by 25 1/8 in
Lithograph printed in colors with added pochoir,  circa 1955, signed in pencil, numbered 141/150, on Arches wove paper, with the inkstamp of the publisher, Guy Spitzer, on the verso, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, with full margins and fresh colors. Unobtrusive time-stain, darkest at the mat opening. There is an area of craquelure measuring 5/8 by 1/4 of an inch in the center of the image on the border between the red and blue areas. The verso, with backboard-stain, not showing through.
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