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Art For Sale
Artist: Marc Chagall
Artist: (after) Pablo Picasso
Paris : Ceiling of Opera Garnier - Original lithograph, Mourlot 1962
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL Paris : Ceiling of Opera Garnier Original stone lithograph Not signed and not numbered On paper 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch) Edited by Sauret, 1962 REFERENCES : Catalo...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

"Mother and Child before Notre Dame" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Mourlot 82. Printed in 1952 at the atelier Mourlot for the art revue Verve (Volume 7, Number 27-28) and published in Paris by Teriad...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for Carnet Californie
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the the sketch). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication as a lithograph. This ...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for Carnet Californie
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the the sketch). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication as a lithograph. This ...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for Carnet Californie
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the the sketch). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication as a lithograph. This ...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

"La Maison de mon village" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1960 by the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (320 x 240 mm). Not signed.
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1960s Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happiness") was printed in Munic...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Le Clown Blanc (The White Clown)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Clown Blanc (The White Clown) Lithograph, 1964 Unsigned (as issued by DLM) From: Derriere le Miroir Chagall: Dessins et Lavis, Exposition...
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1960s French School Art

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Lithograph

Memory of the Natal Land - Original lithograph, Mourlot 1969
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL Memory of the Natal Land Original stone lithograph On paper 31 x 24 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Edited by Teriade, 1969 REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne Mourlot #572 Excellent ...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

LE REPOS (MOURLOT 555)
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Mourlot, 555. Sheet size 18.75 x 25.75 inches. Image size 11 x 18 inches. Frame size approx 25 x 31 inches...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph, Paper

Salomon - Plate from The Bible I - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Located in Roma, IT
Salomon - Plate from The Bible I is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960. Mixed colored lithograph. Mourlot 131 The artwork is from the series "The Bible". In 19...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for Carnet Californie
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the the sketch). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Picasso for publication as a lithograph. This impression was printed in Paris in 1959 by Mourlot Freres, and issued in a sketchbook-style portfolio entitled "Carnet de la Californie...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Maternité / Motherhood I: Honte / Disgrace
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARC CHAGALL (1887 – 1985) MATERNITE, 1926. Motherhood I: Honte / Disgrace (Kornfeld 65, Cramer 5, Sorlier, p. 20-21 Etching, Frontispiece from Maternite Au Sans Pareil, Paris, 1926. Marcel Arland, illustrated by Marc Chagall with five original etchings this being one of the five. Image size: 5 5/8 x 4 1/8. 1130 unsigned impressions on various papers. The story begins with a young woman being shunned by the whole village because she had given birth to a child and left its dead body...
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1920s Modern Art

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Etching

"Hagar in the Desert" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve in 1960 for a special edition devoted exclusively to Chagall's original Bible...
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1960s Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Eve - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original lith...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

"Angel with a Sword" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for Verve in 1956 for a special edition devoted exclusively to Chagall's original Bible...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

"Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after Picasso). Printed in 1959 by Young & Klein of Cincinnati and published by the Cincinnati Art Museum for their Picasso exhibition catalogue (now quite scarce). Size: 17 x 14 inches (430 x 350 mm). There is text on the back...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Farol - Linocut After Pablo Picasso - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Farol is an original linocut realized in smaller size after a linocut by Pablo Picasso of 1959. Very good conditions, except for very minor foxing on edges. Not signed. A passepart...
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1950s Cubist Art

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Linocut

Homecoming, Modern Art Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Homecoming from XXe Siecle. Chagall Monumental Year: 1973 Medium: Lithograph Edition: 10,000 Size: 12.25 in. x 18.875 in. (31 cm x...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

Musee Cantini - Marseille, Pablo Picasso exhibition poster
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in 1959 for an exhibition of Picasso's "50 Masterpieces" at the Musée Cantini in Marseille, Fran...
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1950s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Mother and Child Before Notre Dame
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: Mother and Child before Notre Dame Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28 Year: 1952 Edition: 6000 Signed: Unsigned Framed Size: 22" x 18 1...
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1950s Fauvist Art

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Lithograph

FEMME AU CHAPEAU ET AU MISSEL
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on paper. Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Mar...
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1980s Cubist Art

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Lithograph, Paper

"Woman Circus Rider" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Mourlot 153. Printed by Mourlot Frères in an edition of 2000 for the Dix Ans d'Edition issue of Derrière le Miroir in 1956, publishe...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Toros y Toreros
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: offset lithograph (after the the drawing). Executed as a sketchbook drawing during the middle 1950's and subsequently made available by Pica...
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1960s Art

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Offset

Marc Chagall -- SACRIFICES MADE TO THE NYMPHS, 1961
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Marc Chagall Title: SACRIFICES MADE TO THE NYMPHS from Daphnis and Chloe Original Lithograph on Arches wove paper Printed by Mourlot, published by Tériade, Paris Edition ...
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1960s Art

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Lithograph

"Courses de taureaux" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in Paris in 1924 and published by Albert Morancé for "L'Art d'Aujourd'hui", and now very scarce. The publisher's provenance inscriptio...
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1920s Art

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Stencil, Lithograph

The Workshop - Picasso - Etching and Aquatint - 1927
Located in London, GB
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973 Málaga 1881- 1973 Mougins (Spanish) Title: The Workshop L’atelier, 1927 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint on Wove Paper P...
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1920s Cubist Art

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Etching, Aquatint

"Bacchanal with Pair of Lovers and Owl" linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: linocut re-creation (after the original Picasso linocut). Picasso started making linoleum cuts during the late 1950's and the originals were issued by Galerie Louise Leiris i...
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1960s Art

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Linocut

La Baie, Double Page du No 132 de Derriere le Miroir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Baie, Double Page du No 132 de Derriere le Miroir Color lithograph, 1962 Unsigned as issued in DLM From: "Derriere le Miroir" (Behind the Miroir) No. 132 P...
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1960s French School Art

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Lithograph

Enlévement de Chloé, from Daphnis and Chloé
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Marc Chagall Enlévement de Chloé (Chloe is carried off by the Methymneans) from Daphnis and Chloé, 1961, is a stunning and gorgeous work of art tha...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall -- Le Lit d'Ulysse from L'Odyssée II, 1975
Located in BRUCE, ACT
MARC CHAGALL -- Le Lit d'Ulysse from L'Odyssée II, 1975 Lithograph in colors Unsigned, one of 250 published by Mourlot, Paris Literature Mourlot 829 Unframed Sheet: 42.5 x 32.5 ...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

"Reclining Woman and Picador Eating Grapes" linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: linocut re-creation (after the original Picasso linocut). Picasso started making linoleum cuts during the late 1950's and the originals were issued by Galerie Louise Leiris i...
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1960s Art

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Linocut

"Back Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III, " M 577, " an Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is the back cover of "Chagall Lithographe III," M 577". It is an original Lithograph by Marc Chagall. This print is a glorious black and red bouquet, most of the foliage is shown by black leaves and stems where as the flowers and blooms are red. Also on the top right one can see a tiny red bird. Image: 12.5 x 10 in Frame: 25.5 x 21.5 in Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus. The eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family. His father Khatskl (Zakhar) Shagal, a herring merchant, and his mother, Feige-Ite. This period of his life, described as happy though impoverished, appears in references throughout Chagall's work. The family home on Pokrovskaya Street is now the Marc Chagall Museum. He began studying painting in 1906 with a local artist, Yehuda Pen. In 1907, he moved to St. Petersburg. There he joined the school of the Society of Art Supporters and studied under Nikolai Roerich. It was here that he was exposed to experimental theater and the work of such artists as Gauguin. From 1908-1910 Chagall studied under Leon Bakst at the Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting. This was a difficult period for Chagall; at the time, Jewish residents were only allowed to live in St. Petersburg with a permit, and the artist was jailed for a brief period for an infringement of this restriction. Despite this, Chagall remained in St. Petersburg until 1910, and regularly visited his home town where, in 1909, he met his future wife, Bella Rosenfeld. After gaining a reputation as an artist, Chagall left St. Petersburg to settle in Paris to be near the burgeoning art community in the Montparnasse district, where he developed friendships with such avant-garde luminaries as Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, and Fernand Léger. In 1914, he returned to Vitebsk and, a year later, married his fiancée, Bella. While in Russia, World War I erupted and, in 1916, the Chagalls had their first child, a daughter named Ida. Chagall became an active participant in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Although the Soviet Ministry of Culture made him a Commissar of Art for the Vitebsk region, where he founded Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art and an art school, he did not fare well politically under the Soviet system. "Chagall was considered a non-person by the Soviets because he was Jewish and a painter whose work did not celebrate the heroics of the Soviet people."[6] He and his wife moved back to Paris in 1922. During this period, Chagall wrote articles, poetry and his memoirs (in Yiddish,) which were published mainly in newspapers (and only posthumously in book-form). Chagall became a French citizen in 1937. With the Nazi occupation of France during World War II and the deportation of Jews, the Chagalls fled Paris, seeking asylum at Villa Air-Bel in Marseille, where the American journalist Varian Fry assisted in their escape from France through Spain and Portugal. In 1941, the Chagalls settled in the United States where he lived until 1948 (his wife Bella died in 1944.) His wife Bella, who appears in many of his paintings, bore him one child, Ida and then died on September 2, 1944. Bella and Ida appeared in many of his early and most famous paintings. In 1945, he began a relationship with his housekeeper Virginia Haggard McNeil, with whom he had a son, David. In the 1950s, they moved to a villa in Provence. Virginia left him in 1952, and Chagall married Valentina Brodsky (whom he called "Vava"). Jewish influence: Chagall had a complex relationship with Judaism. On the one hand, he credited his Russian Jewish cultural background as being crucial to his artistic imagination. But however ambivalent he was about his religion, he could not avoid drawing upon his Jewish past for artistic material. As an adult, he was not a practicing Jew, but through his paintings and stained glass, he continually tried to suggest a more "universal message," using both Jewish and Christian themes...
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1960s Surrealist Art

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed Fauvist Lithograph Woman Portrait Marie Therese
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Portrait de Marie Therese" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 274/500 lower left From the estate of Pablo Picasso with an embossed blindstamp in the lower right side of the piece. After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of these original lithographs, which have come to be known as the Picasso Estate Collection. The lithographs were meticulously created after the original works (Oil Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, Charcoal Drawings, etc.) by Master Chromist Marcel Salinas, who worked closely with Picasso in his lifetime. They are printed in an edition of 500 on Arches paper. Embossed with the estate and chromist's stamp seals, along with the legend on the reverse "Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso". Image: 19 1/2" x 15". Paper: 28" x 20 3/4". Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War...
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20th Century Modern Art

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Lithograph

"Toros en Vallauris" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster for the Exposition Vallauris). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Picasso created a series of posters at the a...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happiness") was printed in Munic...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Joshua Before Jericho (Josue devant Jericho), pl. 46 (from the Bible), 1958
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Marc Chagall -- Joshua Before Jericho (Josue Devant Jericho) Pl 46, From: Bible, 1958 Hand coloured etching Edition 25/100, singed low right Ima...
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1950s Art

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Etching

VISAGE DE FEMME DE FACE
Located in Aventura, FL
Selected from the personal collection inherited by Marina Picasso, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter. After Pablo Picasso's death, his granddaughter Marina authorized the printing of t...
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1980s Cubist Art

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Lithograph, Paper

"Congres Mondial des Partisans de la Paix" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Picasso created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres. The...
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1950s Art

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Lithograph

Le Village de Vauvenargues - (after) Pablo Picasso, 1962
Located in New York, NY
Lithographic poster produced for an exhibition of Picasso's paintings at Galerie Louise Leiris in 1962. Designed by Henri Deschamps using Picasso's oil...
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Late 20th Century Modern Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happin...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Untitled (Roi David)
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is a rare and imaginative culmination of the collaboration between Marc Chagall and the Fucina degli Angeli. This work is from the beginning of Chagall’s usage of Murano glass as a means of expression. In 1954, Chagall was invited into the Fucina degli Angeli by Egidio Costantini who was the master glass blower at the time. This stunning and mesmeric sculpture beckons the eyes through the use of vivid, bold colors that blend seamlessly together. Blue, purple, teal and hints of red coalesce in the center of the glass plate, creating the backdrop for a whimsical scene placed in the foreground. A man in a crown kneels in the center of the work, preoccupied with the string instrument delicately constructed in his hands. Gilded flecks of gold are highlighted around the crown and instrument, showing us the depth of the lyrical poet. The transparent glass allows us to follow suite of the man, becoming entranced and lost in thought. Created in 1954 in the Fucina degli Angeli in Venice, Italy, this Murano glass sculpture was realized by master glass artist Egidio Costantini (Brindisi, 1912- Venice, 1998) in collaboration Marc Chagall, (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul, 1985). This work is inscribed ‘M. Chagall E. Costantini 1954 © Fucina degli Angeli’ on verso and is an artist proof. Catalogue Raisonné: Marc Chagall Untitled (Roi David), 1954 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work). Egidio Costantini: Il Maestro dei Maestri. Brussels: Espace Kiron and Espace Medicis, 1990. A different Chagall glass...
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1950s Modern Art

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Glass

Cover from Derriere Le Miroir, Modern Print by Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian/French (1887 - 1985) Title: Untitled from Derriere Le Miroir (cover) Year: 1972 Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate Image Size: 14.25 x 10.5 in. (36...
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1960s Modern Art

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Lithograph

"Three Women" linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: linocut re-creation (after the original Picasso linocut). Picasso started making linoleum cuts during the late 1950's and the originals were issued by Galerie Louise Leiris i...
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1960s Art

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Linocut

"Le musiciens vagabonds" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1963 by the Mourlot Freres atelier. Size: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (320 x 240 mm). Not signed.
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1960s Art

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Lithograph

La Peintre et son double, from Derriere Le Miroir 246
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall La Peintre et son double Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: La Peintre et son double (Derrière le Miroir #246) Portfolio: Derrière le Miroir Year: 1981 Editi...
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1980s Art

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Lithograph

"Reclining Woman and Guitar-Playing Picador" linocut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: linocut re-creation (after the original Picasso linocut). Picasso started making linoleum cuts during the late 1950's and the originals were issued by Galerie Louise Leiris i...
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1960s Art

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Linocut

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happiness") was printed in Munic...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happin...
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1970s Art

Materials

Lithograph

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happiness") was printed in Munic...
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1970s Art

Materials

Lithograph

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio was printed in Munich in the studios of Guen...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso Estate Hand Signed French Expressionist Lithograph "Deux Pigeons"
Located in Surfside, FL
Pablo Picasso (after) "Deux Pigeons" limited edition print on Arches paper, Hand signed by Marina Picasso lower right and numbered 155/500 lower left Fro...
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20th Century Modern Art

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Lithograph

MARC CHAGALL L'acrobate rouge
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL 1887 - 1985 L'acrobate rouge 1974 Colour lithograph 69x51.5 cm, image; 83x64 cm, sheet size Signed by the artist in pencil lower right "Marc...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph, Paper

lithograph for "Le Gout du Bonheur"
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This Picasso lithograph from the "Le Gout du Bonheur" portfolio (the French title translates to "The Taste of Happiness") was printed in Munic...
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1970s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Sarah and Abimelech" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for Verve in 1960 for a special edition devoted exclusively to Chagall's original Bible...
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1960s Art

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Lithograph

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This is an original print contributed by Chagall in 1975 for the portfolio "San Lazzaro et ses amis", published in Paris. A number of important artists c...
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1970s Art

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Lithograph

Untitled
Located in New York, NY
This original lithograph in multiple colors on Velin paper was printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris in 1969. From the unsigned unnumbered original edition measuring 9.5 x 12.25 in. (24....
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Colorful Bible King - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Original lithograph in colours Year: 1956 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Édit...
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1950s Modern Art

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Lithograph

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