Lot 118
  • 118

Marc Chagall

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit (M. 235)
  • lithograph
  • image: 362 by 275mm 14 by 10 5/8 in
  • sheet: 526 by 384mm 20 1/2 by 14 7/8 in
Lithograph printed in colours, 1958-59, from Drawings from the Bible, signed in pencil, numbered 43/50, on Arches wove paper, published by Verve, Paris, 1960, framed   

Condition

With full margins (a deckle at lower sheet edge),in good condition apart from traces of uneven pale light-staining and surface soiling, two minor indentations at upper right sheet edge, occasional minor fox marks, uneven backboard-staining, framed.
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