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Marc Chagall

Disrobing Her with His Own Hand..., from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights

No reserve

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February 9, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Bid

1,500 USD

Lot Details

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Marc Chagall

1887 - 1985


Disrobing Her with His Own Hand..., from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights

signed in pencil (lower right); inscribed Pl. 4 and numbered 24/90 (lower left)

lithograph printed in colors on laid paper


Executed in 1948, this impression is number 24 from the edition of 90 (total edition includes ten in Roman numerals and 11 lettered A-K), published by Pantheon Books.


unframed 17 in. x 13 in.

43 cm x 33 cm

Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Prints, Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 257;

Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian.

F. Mourlot, The Lithographs of Chagall, Monte-Carlo and New York 1960, vol. I, p. 68, no. 39, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

P. Cramer, Marc Chagall, the Illustrated Books : Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva 1965, pp. 58-59, no. 18, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)