Lot 39
  • 39

Marc Chagall

Estimate
6,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • Four Tales from the Arabian Nights: One Plate (Mourlot 43)
  • Image: 367 by 282mm; 14 9/16 by 11 1/8in
  • Sheet: 429 by 330mm; 16 7/8 by 13in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1948, signed in pencil, an unnumbered proof aside from the edition of 90, printed by Mourlot, published by Pantheon Books, on laid paper, with margins, in good condition apart from slight light-staining, uneven backboard-staining, the red possibly slightly attenuated

Condition

In good condition as catalogued. The backboard-staining is partly showing through at lower left corner of sheet recto
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