MARC CHAGALL

Biography

After the great success of their 1956 collaboration on a portfolio of colour lithographs to commemorate the publication of Chagall's long delayed set of etchings for the Bible, Antoine Teriade and Chagall agreed to devote another issue of Verve to another set of illustrations illuminating Chagall's Bible.

 

The Maid of Israel

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 231, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

The Garden of Eden

It has been suggested that before the Fall, Adam and Eve were truly one flesh, separate but joined.

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 232, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Creation

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 234, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 235, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

God Rebukes Eve

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 236, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Adam & Eve Are Banished From The Garden Of Eden

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 237, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Cain & Abel

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 238, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,800

 

Sarah and Abimelech 

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 239, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Sarah & The Angels

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 239, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Hagar In The Desert

Sarah suggested to Abraham to take Hagar when she believed that she was unable to give him an heir; when as Sarah gave birth to Isaac, she demanded that Abraham get rid of Hagar. Hagar and Ishmael were dying in the desert when the Lord sent an angel to rescue them.

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 241, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Rachel Steals Her Father's Graven Images 

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 242, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Tamar, The Daughter In Law Of Judah

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 243, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Rahab & The Spies Of Jericho

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 244, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Naomi & Her Daughters In Law 

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 245, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Ruth, The Gleaner

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 246, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

The Meeting Of Ruth & Boaz

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 247, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Ruth at the feet of Boaz

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 248, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Boaz Wakes Up & Sees Ruth At His Feet

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 249, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,800

 

David Saved By Michal

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 250, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Ahasuerus Banishes Vashti

Vashti was the wife of King Ahaseurus of Assyria. She was dismissed for refusing to come at her husband's command, she was then told to make a place for Esther to succeed her as the Queen.

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 251, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Job At Prayer

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 253, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,500

 

Job Disconsolate

Lithograph, Verve 37/38, Mourlot # 254, 35.5 x 26 cm, 1960

$1,600

 

Mystical Crucifixion

Lithograph, DLM 250, n. 27-28, 1000 impressions signed in the stone; published in the deluxe art review, Derriere le Miroir in 1950. Chagall began doing paintings of the Crucifixion after the Nazis began the Holocaust. This is one of the first two colour lithographs that Chagall drew directly on the stone. In Aimee Maeght’s memoir, Chagall’s dealer from 1950 on, he mentions sending chagall to Mourlot’s lithography workshop to learn how to do all of the colour stones for his lithographs. There Chagall met Charles Sorlier, master-printer at Mourlot, with whom he would work until his death in 1986. No separate signed & numbered edition exists. 36 x 51.5 cm, 1950

$1,800