Marc CHAGALL: The coachman who lost his way, Original signed engraving
The Coachman Who Lost His Way (The Direction of the Road), 1948
Original engraving
Signed in the plate
Edition of 368 copies
On Arches vellum 37.5 x 28 cm
REFERENCE: Catalogue raisonné Marc Chagall and Ambroise Vollard #18
INFORMATION: Marc Chagall began engraving the copperplates illustrating Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" in 1923. The print was completed by Tériade in 1948.
A photocopy of the proof of print signed by Chagall will be attached to the engraving.
Excellent condition
Marc Chagall :
(1887-1985) born Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov, is a painter who was born on July the 7th in Liozna, in Bielorussia (then included in the Russian Empire), and naturalised french in 1937. He died on March 28th, 1985 in Saint-Paul de Vence. Chagall is one of the most famous foreign artists who settle in France in the XXth century, along with Pablo Picasso or Joan Miro. Even if his work is not associated to any movement or school, it bears characteristics of Surrealism and neo-primitivism. He also drew his inspiration from jewish tradition, the daily life of the shtetl (jewish village in Eastern Europe) and russian folklore, from which he elaborated his own symbolic. Chagall work with different medium, such as oil on canvas, sculpture, poetry, glass painting, enamels etc.
Additionally to the worldwide presence of his works in the biggest collections, one museum is dedicated to him in Nice, and another one in Vitebsk.
