Marc Chagall

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, by Marc Chagall, 1948.

• Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).
• Lithograph in colors on Laid paper.
• Hand-signed.
• This work is presented unframed.

This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. This is a proof aside from the edition of 90.

The work is the 8th plate (of 12) from the album Four Tales from the Arabian Nights.

This work was printed in 1948 in a limited edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions by Albert Carman, New York. It was published by Pantheon, New York.

There is a thirteenth composition which was only included in ten of the portfolios.

Each composition illustrates a piece of text from one of four tales from the Arabian nights. This composition relates to the story of “Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman”. The text from which the image was created is – “When Abdullah got the net ashore, he saw a man in it and he fled from him, but the man called out to him from within the net…”

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Mourlot, F., & Sorlier, C., (1960). Chagall: The Lithographs I: 1922-1957 (Catalogue Raisonné). D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Reference: Mourlot 43.

Cramer, P. (1995). Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Geneva: Cramer. Reference: Cramer 18.