Marc CHAGALL: Samson and Delilah, Original signed engraving
Samson and Delilah, c. 1939
Original engraving (Maurice Potin workshop)
Here a rare first state before copper reduction (and with note in the margin)
Signed in the plate
On Montval Vellum 44 x 33.5 cm
REFERENCE: Catalog raisonné Marc Chagall and Ambroise Vollard #252
INFORMATION: Chagall's Bible was published by Tériade in 1956, completing a project initiated by Vollard in 1930. Chagall engraved the brass between 1931 and 1939 in the workshops of Maurice Potin. The project was interrupted by the war.
The copy presented here, from the Tériade archives, is one of the rare proofs printed in 1931/1939.
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.
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