A Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer, Marc Chagall created a singularly poetic figurative oeuvre full of rich colors and dreamlike imagery – flying lovers, massive bouquets, melancholy clowns, fantastic animals, lonely fiddlers, and vibrant hearts – that made him one of the most popular early modern and Western artists of the 20th century. Born Moishe Shagal on 7 July 1887, in Vitebsk, in the Russian Empire, Chagall grew up among a devout Jewish community. After learning the elements of drawing at a local school and studying painting at Zvantseva in St. Petersburg. He moved to Paris in 1910, befriending such audacious Expressionist and Cubist painters including Chaim Soutine, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Andre Lhote, and other members of the young avant-garde. Chagall’s own practice, however, also absorbed the rich hues of the Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and Fauvist paintings popular at the time. Responding to these stimuli, Chagall produced works such as I and the Village, 1911, The Fiddler, 1912, and Paris Through the Window, 1913, essentially establishing the whimsical and emotional vocabulary that would characterize his art of the next 60 years. The development of his career and the vagaries of two World Wars forced Chagall to move repeatedly between France, Germany, and Russia while also spending time in the United States. While in North America, Chagall excelled beyond painting, designing sets and costumes for numerous performances by the American Ballet Theatre. Eventually returning to Paris, Chagall would continue to work in France alongside his two great loves: one, lasting more than 30 years, with Bella Rosenfeld, who appeared in myriad paintings from Birthday, 1915–23, to Around Her, 1945; the other, with Valentina Brodsky, who was featured in several of his later portraits. The artist died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera, where he had settled with Brodsky. Chagall’s six-panel stained-glass installation American Windows is permanently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. Similarly, Chagall famously repainted the ceiling of Paris’s Palais Garnier for free, fulfilling the institution’s efforts to modernize. His works can also be found in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. According to Sotheby’s Mei Moses, the average compound annual return for Chagall resold at auction between 2003 and 2017 was 6.8% and 85.0% of 294 such works increased in value.

Marc Chagall

The Rainbow, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1969.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left margin. This work was printed by Charles Sorlier in a limited edition of 75 hand signed and numbered impressions. It was published by Editions des Musees Nationaux in 1969. The paper bears the Arches watermark along the right margin. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

 The Rainbow

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, limited folio edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Tempest&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tempest</a>, signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (French-Russian).</li><li>After William Shakespeare (English).</li><li>Monte Carlo:&nbsp;Andre Sauret,&nbsp;1975.</li><li>Folio.&nbsp;</li><li>Fifty lithographs overall, with original tissue guards.</li><li>Limited edition of 250 signed and numbered copies (this is #96), 270 the entire edition.</li><li>Original glassine wrappers; printed on Arches wove paper, in a cream vellum box, stamped in gilt on cover, held in original publisher's cardboard shipping box with label.</li></ul> A wonderful and evocative series of lithographs, produced when Chagall was 88 years old. When Raymond Levy of Editions André Sauret first approached the artist about illustrating Shakespeare's Tempest, Chagall initially hesitated because he was afraid he might not do justice to the text, but then between March and May 1975, he produced fifty drawings on tracing paper, which were transferred onto zinc plates and sent back to Chagall for final retouching.

The Tempest | Signed by Chagall

Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, from The Bible, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1956.<ul><li>March Chagall (Russia-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Etching, hand-colored with watercolor on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching is hand-colored by the artist in watercolor. It is signed in pencil "M. Ch." in the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, in the lower left margin. Each one of the 100 impressions was hand painted by Chagall in watercolor, making each impression a unique work. This etching is part of the The Bible series and was printed by Raymond Haasen, Paris in 1958 in a limited edition of 100 hand-coloured impressions. It is one the 105 images that Chagall created for this important series published by Tériade, Paris. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, from The Bible

The Ride [Le Chevaucheé], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>,&nbsp;1970.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and inscribed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also inscribed in pencil 'epreuve d'artiste,' at the lower left margin. It is an artist's proof aside from the standard edition of 50. This work was printed in by Fernand Mourlot, Paris and published by Éditions Maeght, Paris. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

The Ride | Le Chevaucheé, 1970

Self Portrait With Eiffel Tower by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1974.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Edition 17/50.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin. It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin. There were a small number of artist’s proofs. It was printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris in 1974 and published in the same year. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

Self Portrait With Eiffel Tower

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales from the Arabian Nights, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1948.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Laid paper.</li><li>Hand-signed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> 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…” Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

When Abdullah got the Net Ashore…, from: Four Tales from the Arabian Nights

Now the King loved Science and Geometry... from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights [Contes des Mille et une Nuits], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>,&nbsp;1948.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Laid paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of 90 and inscribed “pl. 10” at the lower left margin The work is the 10th 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 “The Tale of the Ebony Horse”. The text from which the image was created is – “Now the King loved science and geometry and one festival day as he sat on his kingly throne there came to him three wise men…” Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

Now the King loved Science and Geometry…, from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights

Woman with Bouquet, from Nice and the Côte d’Azur [Femme au Bouquet: Nice Côte d’Azur], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1964.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil with Roman numerals from the edition of 75, at the lower left margin. A further 150 impressions were numbered in Arabic numerals and there were ten artist's proofs. It was printed by Charles Sorlier and published by Editions Mourlot in 1964. The paper bears the Arches watermark in the left margin. With the ink stamp of the publisher, verso. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

Woman with Bouquet, from: Nice and the Côte d’Azur | Femme au Bouquet: Nice Côte d’Azur

Marc Chagall1887 - 1945Le CirqueParis, Tériade Éditeur, 1967.In-folio (425 x 324 mm).En feuilles, couverture en vélin d’Arches, sous chemise et étui toilés de l’éditeur.L’un des chef -d’oeuvres de Chagall.Textes de Marc Chagall.38 lithographies originales de Marc Chagall, dont 23 en couleurs, comprenant 3 sur double page.Les lithographies ont été t irées sur les presses de Mourlot.Édition unique à 270 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches. Exemplaire de collaborateur non signé.

Cirque

Nude with a Fan [Nu à l’eventail], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1924.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Etching with drypoint on Japan laid paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Edition 6/100.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right corner. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at the lower left margin. There were 25 impressions on Japan laid paper a further 25 on Chine paper and 75 on Arches paper. The total edition is of 125, with the edition of 100 comprised of Japan and Arches papers. It was printed by Louis Fort in 1924 and published the following year by Editions Albert Morancé, Paris. It was included in the portfolio Le Portfeuille des Peintres-Graveurs Indépendants pour 1925 [The portfolio of painter-printmakers 1925]. There was also a later edition of 250 unsigned and unnumbered impressions. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

Nude with a Fan | Nu à l’eventail

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Gogol&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gogol</a>'s Les Âmes Mortes (Dead Souls), the first major book entirely illustrated and signed by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=marc%20chagall&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chagall</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Nicolai Gogol (Russian).</li><li>Illustrated by Marc Chagall (French-Russian).</li><li>Paris: Tériade, 1948.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>Illustrated with 96 etchings, hors-texte, and 11 etched vignettes, en-texte on Japon nacré.</li><li>Signed by Chagall in ink on the justification page.</li><li>Limited edition, one of 50 copies on vélin d’arches filigrané, this being numbered 27, from a total edition of 368.</li><li>Text in French.</li><li>All loose as issued in publisher’s printed cream colored wrappers, with cream colored chemises.</li></ul>&nbsp;Gogol’s masterpiece Dead Souls, the first major book entirely illustrated by Chagall and his first illustrations for Vollard. Written over five years at the end of the long pilgrimage that brought Gogol to Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, Dead Souls offers a vivid and ruthless portrait of a small swindler in provincial Russia in 1820. Published for the first time in 1842, the novel went on to exert a huge influence over the development of Russian literature. In 1923 the French publisher Ambroise Vollard asked Chagall to produce an illustrated edition. Chagall, who had always felt a strong emotional connection to the country where he spent his youth, agreed with enthusiasm and pursued the project between 1923 and 1927. However, like many other Vollard projects, the production of the work was interrupted and only completed years later. The final plate presents a particularly curious image in which Gogol reads and Chagall paints a portrait of Vollard.

Les Âmes Mortes

The Open Window [La Fenêtre ouverte], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=marc+chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1971.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of edition of 50.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" in the lower right margin. It is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, in the lower left margin.&nbsp; The work was printed in a limited edition of 50 hand signed and numbered impressions by Mourlot, Paris, in 1971.&nbsp;The paper bears the Arches watermark in the right margin. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

The Open Window | La Fenêtre Ouverte

Discovery of Daphnis by Lamon, from Daphnis and Chloe, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>,&nbsp;1961.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris in 1961.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is hand numbered in pencil at the lower left margin, from the edition of 60. This is the 25th of the 42 plates that are part of the Daphnis and Chloe series by Marc Chagall. This impression is from the deluxe edition of 60 hand signed and numbered impressions. There was a further book edition of 250 impressions (not signed, not numbered and without margins). The story of Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral elegy attributed to the 3rd century Greek poet Longus, dates from the second century A.D. It is a classical romance involving the adventures of two foundling children raised by adopted parents who are humble shepherds in the idyllic setting of the Isle of Lesbos. The discovery of the infants who have been left exposed takes place at different times, but in both circumstances their clothing and rich tokens found with them suggest the foundlings may be of noble birth. In each instance the shepherd who finds the baby is alone and tempted to steal their treasure and leave them to fate, but instead bows to the paternal instinct to nurture and raise the child as his own. As Daphnis and Chloe grow to be young adults tending their adopted parents' sheep and goats on the sun-drenched Grecian hillsides and pastures, they discover that their friendship is turning to love but in their innocence, they do not know how to proceed. Together they experience many trials and tribulations, protected throughout by the god Pan, before finally realizing their true fate. Daphnis and Chloe has served through the ages as the inspiration for nearly every love story that has followed including Romeo and Juliet. In 1959 Efstratios Tériade, the publisher of the vastly influential 20th century art review Verve, approached Chagall suggesting to him that he undertake a new project, illustration of the prose romance Daphnis &amp; Chloe. The idea of reviving and illustrating this story, which had been widely popular primarily in France and England throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, is one that greatly appealed to Chagall. He began his preparation by making two trips to Greece, traveling there to absorb the inspiration of the Greek landscape. Over the course of three years Chagall worked on this project creating forty-two lithographs. These have since been heralded as one of Chagall's greatest graphic achievements. In the introduction to the set in the Mourlot catalogue raisonné it is referred to as “the most important graphic work that Marc Chagall has created thus far." Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

Discovery of Daphnis by Lamon, from: Daphnis and Chloe

Marc Chagall(1887 - 1985) Scène biblique signed Marc Chagall (lower right) oil on canvas 43 ¼ by 49 ⅜ in. 109.9 by 125.4 cm. Executed circa 1980.&nbsp;

Scène biblique

Composition XXXIV, from Circus [Planche XXXIV: Cirque], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>,&nbsp;1967.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris.</li><li>Published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris in 1967.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of 24, at the lower left margin. There was also an unsigned book edition of 250 and 20 hors commerce impressions in Roman numerals. This is the thirty-fourth composition from the series of thirty-eight created for Cirque [Circus]. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated following purchase.

Composition XXXIV, from: Circus | Planche XXXIV: Cirque, 1967

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