Lot 42
  • 42

Marc Chagall

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 HKD
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Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • Le poète (Mourlot: 442)
  • signed and numbered 48/50
  • lithograph
Executed in 1966, this work is number 48 from an edition of 50.

Provenance

Galerie Michael, Beverly Hills
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Fernand Mourlot, The Lithographs of Chagall 1962-1968, Boston Book and Art shop, Boston, 1969, cat. no. 442

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Mounted on cardboard, the sheet is taped along the upper edge. The bottom and right edges of the sheet are deckled which is inherent to the nature of the medium. The sheet is slightly undulating, only visible under very close examination. The sheet is age-darkened along the periphery on the front and reverse. There is a thin linear brown accretion near the top corner on the border of the sheet, unobtrusive to the image, presumably inherent to the artist's working method. Framed under glass.
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