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Artist: Marc Chagall
Artist: Gino Severini
Marc Chagall, "Le Bouquet Rose", original lithograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
1980 Original lithograph 45.7 x 29.5 inches Hand signed and numbered Edition of 50 on Arches wove This original lithograph was created as one of fourteen lithographs from the co...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Summer's Dream - Original Handsigned Lithograph 1983 Printed by Mourlot Dimensions: 48 x 65 cm Handsigned in pencil Justified EA (Epreuve D'artiste, Artist proof) asi...
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1980s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall Etching, 'Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh', 1956
Located in Miami, FL
This beautifully detailed etching from Chagall's 'The Bible' series. Most of the etchings from this series were executed between 1931 and 1939 with the last 2 pieces completed betwee...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Moses Sees the Sufferings of his People, from the suite, The Story of Exodus
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork Titled "Moses Sees the Sufferings of his People" 1966 from the suite " The Story of Exodus" is an original lithograph on Arches paper ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Recobntre de Ruth et de Booz (Meeting of Ruth and Boaz)" Original Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Recobntre de Ruth et de Booz (Meeting of Ruth and Boaz) M 247/270" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE fo...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Tamar belle-fille de Juda
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Tamar belle-fille de Juda Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Adam and Eve are Banished from Paradise
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Adam and Eve are Banished from Paradise Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Year: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Adam and Eve and the Forbidden Fruit Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" Ima...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Danseurs à la Lune - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 35 prints. Rare and precious artwork by Chagall, in excellent conditions. Ref. Cat. Cramer, n. 32 Image dimensions : 30.5 x 24 cm
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Itinerant Players from Chagall Lithographs I
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) Itinerant Players from Chagall Lithographs I, 1960 Lithograph 12.50 x 9.50 in
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ruth aux pieds de Booz
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Ruth aux pieds de Booz Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Job in Despair
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Job in Despair Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" Image Size: 14 3/8" x 10 ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Isaiah
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: Isaiah Series: Bible Date: 1956 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 14" x 10.5" Framed Dimensions: 23 1/4 " x 19.5" Signature: Unsigned Editi...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Ève Maudite par Dieu (Eve Incurs God's Displeasure), M 236/259" Original Litho
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ève Maudite par Dieu (Eve Incurs God's Displeasure), M 236/259" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

l' Avare Qui a Perdu son Tresor, From the suite Les Fables De La Fontaine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: l' Avare Qui a Perdu son Tresor Year: 1927 Medium: Original etching Edition: fom the unumbered edition of 200 Paper: Montval Laid paper Image (plate mark) size: 11.5 x 9.5 inches paper size: 14.85 x 11.15 inches Signature: Signed in the plate as issue Publisher: Teriade, Paris Printer: Maurice Potin Condition: Excellent Frame: Framed in a custom wooden black and silver frame, with silver color bevel and fabric matting. Framed size is 25 x22.75 inches Description: From the suite les Fables De La Fontaine...
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Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Offering, Framed Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression from the book of Marc Chagall's (Russian, 1887-1985) lithographs. Published in 1960 by Éditions André Sauret, Monte-Carlo. From 1960 to 1974 Chagall produced 28 lithographs for the six volumes of the Lithographs Catalogue Raisonné. Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Offering Year: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Size: 12 in. x 9 in. (30.48 cm x 22.86 cm) Frame: 20 x 17 inches Editor: Andre Sauret Publisher: George Braziller...
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1960s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Rahab et les Espions de Jéricho (Rahab and the Spies of Jericho)" by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Rahab et les Espions de Jéricho (Rahab and the Spies of Jericho)" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rencontre de Ruth et de Booz
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Rencontre de Ruth et de Booz Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Noémi et ses belles-filles
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Noémi et ses belles-filles Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Odyssey : Odysseus and Telemachus - Original lithograph - Mourlot #798
Located in Paris, FR
Marc CHAGALL Odyssey : Odysseus and Telemachus Original stone lithograph Printed in Mourlot workshop, 1975 On Arches vellum 42.5 x 32 cm (c. 17 x 13 inch) REFERENCES : Catalog rai...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Adam et Ève Chassés du Paradis Terrestre" Original Color Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Adam et Ève Chassés du Paradis Terrestre (Adam and Eve are Banished from Paradise), M 237/260" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original c...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Sara et les Anges (Sarah and the Angels), " Original Color Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sara et les Anges (Sarah and the Angels), M 240/263" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for a...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Les Ames Mortes by N. Gogol - Complete Suite by Marc Chagall - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Les Ames mortes (by N. Gogol) is a very rare suite of etchings realized by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Complete set of 96 etchings hors-texte and 11 etched vignettes en-texte for the ...
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1940s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Sara et les Anges
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Sara et les Anges Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Woman Angel - 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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Front Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III, " M 577, " Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Front Cover of "Chagall Lithographe III," M 577" is an original Lithograph by Marc Chagall. This painting is primarily red with black lines defining the figures and objects. Followi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Job en Prière (Job Praying), " Original colored Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Job en Prière (Job Praying), M 253/276" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dessins pour La...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Jeu des Acrobates, original lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe II"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm As published in Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned, as issued, from the edition of several thousand Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot/Gauss 401 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - 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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

Cain and Abel
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Cain and Abel Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Year: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Carte de Voeux (New Year Greeting Card), " Original Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carte De Voeux (New Year Greeting Card)" is an original color lithograph by Marc Chagall. It is edition 11/450, and the number is written in pencil in the lower right. This piece de...
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1980s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Vitraux pour Jérusalem - Illustrated Book by M. Chagall, 1962
Located in Roma, IT
"Vitraux pour Jerusalem" is one of the most important books illustrated by Marc Chagall and considered as one of his editorial masterpieces. Th...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Job désespéré
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Job désespéré Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

"Le Visage d'Israël (The Face of Israel), M 231, " an Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Visage d'Israël (The Face of Israel), M 231," is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. It was created as a part of "Verve, revue artistique et littéraire," Vol. X No 37-38. Thi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Bulls and a Frog - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #106
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : Bulls and a Frog , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of the gallery a...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Sara et Abimelec
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 Sara et Abimelec Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

l' Ivrogne et sa Femme
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: l'Ivrogne et sa Femme Year: 1927 Medium: Original etching Edition: fom the unumbered edition of 200 Paper: Montval Laid paper Image ...
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Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching

The Prophet Daniel With The Lions
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: "The Prophet Daniel With The Lions" Publication: Verve, no. 33-34 Year : 1956 Medium: Original col...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

La vierge d'Israel
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 "La vierge d'Israël" Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Genesis-Angel of Paradise" Illustration for "The Bible" for Verve, Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Genesis-Angel of Paradise" Illustration for "The Bible" for Verve" is an original color lithograph by Marc Chagall. Chagall's characteristic way of rendering figures is seen up clos...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Fin d'Absalom - Hand Colored Etching by Marc Chagall - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed (artist's signature "M.Ch." lower right). Edition of 100 copies (62/100). From the series of “The Bible“, printed by Raymond Haasen and published by Tériade.. Ref. Cra...
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1950s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Agar dans le Désert (Hagar in the Desert)" Original Color Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Agar dans le Désert (Hagar in the Desert), M 241/264" an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dess...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Bird Harmed by an Arrow - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #108
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Bird Harmed by an Arrow , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of th...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Wolf and The Lamb - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #98
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Wolf and The Lamb, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 c...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint, Etching

Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching 1958 Printed by Tériade Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm Handsigned and numbered handcolored Edition: 100 Reference: Cramer 30. Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion. With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way. Haunted Harbors Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Carte de Voeux #731, " Lithograph by Marc Chagall in Chagall Catalog Raisonne
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Carte de Voeux #731" is an original lithograph greeting card by Marc Chagall. It is in the Chagall Catalogue Raisonne and is from a rare edition of only 200. It depicts a face and a bird in Chagall's signature whimsical modernist style. 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" art 21" x 18 1/4" frame Marc Chagall was born in Liozno, near Vitebsk, now in Belarus, the eldest of nine children in a close-knit Jewish family led by 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...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Lucite

POEMES: GRAVURES V
Located in Aventura, FL
Woodcut on Japon Nacré paper. Hand signed and numbered (of 26) by the artist. From a total edition of 238: 26 on Japon Nacré numbered 1-26, 200 on Rives numbered 27-226, 12 on Rives...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Caïn et Abel (Cain and Abel), M 238/261, " Original Color Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Caïn et Abel (Cain and Abel), M 238/261" an original Lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dessins pour La B...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Job Désperé (Job in Despair), " original color lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Job Désperé (Job in Despair), M 254/277" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERVE for the book “Dessins pour L...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Eve Incurs God's Displeasure (M. 236), " Original Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Eve Incurs God's Displeasure" is an original double sided lithograph by Marc Chagall. On recto the print features the biblical story of Eve being scolded by God for her sin in the G...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Clown Acrobate - Etching & Aquatint by Marc Chagall - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Hand-signed. Edition 13/35 prints, numbered and hand signed in pencil. Image Dimensions : 31 x 24 cm Passepartout included : 70 x 50 cm Ref. Cramer 12. Very good conditions.
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Goats and the Lion - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #198
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Goats and the Lion, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 in) With COA of the gal...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

"Noémie et ses Belles-Filles (Naomi and her Daughters-in-law)" Original Litho
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Noémie et ses Belles-Filles (Naomi and her Daughters-in-law), M 245/268" is an original Lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VE...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Bible - 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" (...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ruth at the Feet of Boaz
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: Ruth at the Feet of Boaz Series: Bible Date: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 13 15/16 x 10 7/16 inches...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Fine Art Prints for Sale — Animal Prints, Abstract Prints, Nude Prints and Other Prints

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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