Marc CHAGALL- Elie et la Veuve de Sarepta, 1958 - Original etching hand signed and hand colored
Elie et la Veuve de Sarepta, 1958
Original etching on Vélin d'Arches paper (Arches' watermark lower margin), hand-colored with watercolor.
A beautiful print by Marc Chagal, called one of the "most outstanding pieces of his etchings" by Robert Marteau!
Signed on the plate bottom left & hand-signed "M. Ch" lower right margin.
Numbered 89/100 on the bottom left corner.
Dimensions:
+ Size of the sheet: 53,5 x 39 cm / 21 x 15,3 in.
+ Size of the image: 29 x 24,5 cm / 11,4 x 9,6 in
Condition: In very good condition, with soft handling creases at the edges, and some minor stains in the margins. Image very clean otherwise, with bright and vivid colors.
Issued from the color edition of the portfolio "Bible. Eaux-fortes originales de Marc Chagall" (PLATE #83), displaying 105 etchings by Marc Chagall ordered by Ambroise Vollard.
The portfolio was initially published in an edition of 275 copies, with 20 "Hors Commerce" prints. An edition of 100 copies was also released, presenting hand-coloring etchings on Vélin d'Arches paper, with wider margins, each numbered and hand-signed with Marc Chagall's initials. Please note that only this plate is for sale, NOT the complete portfolio.
Printed by Raymond Haasen.
Published by Tériade, Paris.
Referenced in Cramer #30.
Dimensions :
- Height : 53,5 cm
- Width : 39 cm
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.
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