1957 Marc Chagall "Marc Chagall: Das Graphische Werk"

Item Details

Published by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, Germany
Marc Chagall: Das Graphische Werk, 1957
Catalog and text of the graphic works of Marc Chagall
Unnumbered
Unsigned
Offset lithographs printed by Fricke & Co., Stuttgart, Germany
Halftones printed by M.DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, Germany

A hardcover book titled Marc Chagall, Das Graphische Werk published in 1957 by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart, Germany. This catalogue raisonné features various essays in German contextualized to the artist’s work. The essays are accompanied by multiple color and black and white illustrations of Chagall’s oeuvre spanning from 1922 to 1954, all reprinted in halftone and offset lithography. Unnumbered and unsigned.

Marc Chagall was a renowned Jewish artist born July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia, who later moved to Paris and gained French citizenship. Chagall studied at the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts in Saint Petersburg. He was a member of the Ecole de Paris and was part of the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne in the early 1900s. In addition to Paris and St. Petersburg, Chagall traveled and exhibited globally including Amsterdam, Jerusalem and New York City. Having lived through World War I and World War II, his work was influenced by these events. Chagall’s work is inspired by his Jewish heritage and his home town of Vitebsk, and incorporates elements of Fauvism and Cubism as well as aspects of traditional Russian and Jewish folk art. His work has been exhibited and collected internationally both privately and by institutions including the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern.

Condition

- negligible cloth tears, edge wear, minor toning and stains throughout the hardcover; minor toning throughout the interior pages of book.

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Item #

18BOS155-080