Specific

• Author:

  CHAGALL Marc (Vitebsk, 7 luglio 1887 - Saint-Paul de Vence, 28 marzo 1985)

• Title: LE JEUX DES ACROBATES
• Place: Montecarlo
• Data: 1963
• Format: 32 x 24 cm
• Comparison bibliographic: Cfr. Mourlot (III), 401

Product's description

Original full-page color lithograph printed on Arches paper. Table outside the text for "Chagall lithographie II." The start of production of Chagall lithograph dates from the period in Berlin (1922-1923) but it was in 1946, the United States, that Chagall agreed to illustrate "The Thousand and One Nights": the thirteen tables in the volume marked his first steps in color lithography. Back in Paris in 1950, the artist went by the printer Fernand Mourlot, to whom we owe most of the revival of lithography in the postwar period. From 1950 to 1952 he attended assiduously Chagall's studio Mourlot where he learned all the secrets of the trade. Evidence of that period were printed in small numbers or destroyed, since the purpose of the artist was not to create finished works, but to master the technique. Between 1922 and 1985 Marc Chagall lithographs created 1500. Many of Chagall's lithographs were made ??with twenty / twentyfive colors and testify to the tremendous work of the artist: no one before him reached such perfection that the incomparable inspiration to associate with the complete mastery of technique. Chagall did not half of lithography to multiply his works, but a necessary tool in a creation that could not be expressed in any other way. The artist did not realize almost never preliminary sketches for his lithographs and from that derive the charm and spontaneity of his creative work. The four volumes "Chagall litographe", from which the sheet is drawn in question were made ??by Fernand Mourlot Sorlier and Charles (André Sauret Publisher) between 1960 and 1974. Each volume categorizes lithographs by Chagall in a given period of time and is enriched by several lithographs included in volumes as tables outside the text. Original in the current edition, perfect condition, and conservative editorial margins. See Mourlot (III), 401