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Prints and Multiples For Sale
Artist: Marc Chagall
Artist: Robert Cottingham
Job en prières
Located in Paris, FR
Original lithograph by Marc Chagall from The Bible of 1960 "Job en prières" Unsigned 35 x 26 cm Excellent condition
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rahab et les espions de Jéricho
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1960 Unsigned lithograph from the book "Drawings for the Bible" composed of 24 color lithographs Publisher : Verve (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Mourlot 244...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Meeting between Ruth and Booz
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1960 Unsigned lithograph from the book "Drawings for the Bible" composed of 24 color lithographs Publisher : Verve (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Mourlot 247...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ruth at Booz's feet
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1960 Unsigned lithograph from the book "Drawings for the Bible" composed of 24 color lithographs Publisher : Verve (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Mourlot 248...
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1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Profile and Red Child, from Mourlot Lithographe I
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Profile and Red Child Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I Medium: Lithograph Year: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Framed Size: 18 1/2" x 15 1/2" Image Size: 12 1/2...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Rachel Hides Her Father's Household Goods, from 1960 Drawings for the Bible
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Rachel Hides Her Father's Household Goods Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Year: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"L'Acrobate Vert - Coverture (The Green Acrobat), " an Original Color Lithograph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"L'Acrobate Vert - Coverture (The Green Acrobat)" is an original Lithograph made by Marc Chagall for the front cover of Derrière le Miroir #235. It is a geometrical green based carni...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ahaseurus banishes Vashti, Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1960
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Ahaseurus banishes Vashti from “Dessins pour la Bible” Verve Vol. X, Nos. 37-38, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris, 1960 Year: 1960...
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1960s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Poisson Bleu, Lithograph by Marc Chagall 1957
Located in Long Island City, NY
An impression of "Le Poisson Bleu" (The Blue Fish) from the Jacques Lassaigne book "Marc Chagall" with 15 unsigned lithographs. This is one lithograph of...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Tables of the Law - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - The Tables of the Law - Original Lithograph 1962 Printed by Mourlot Dimensions: 32.5 x 24.5 cm Publisher: André Sauret, Monte-Carlo Reference: Mourlot n° 365 Unsigned...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

1957 Marc Chagall 'The Wandering Musicians'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches ( 31.75 x 24.13 cm ) Image Size: 12.5 x 9.5 inches ( 31.75 x 24.13 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Addition...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hagar in the Desert
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Original lithograph Title: Hagar in the Desert Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible From VERVE, Vol. X, Nos. 37 and 38. ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall Still Life with Fruits 1957 Original Lithograph Mourlot 205
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Surrealist composition with a dog, figure, cockerel floating above the still life In a cream mount, visible sheet length 19.50cm, height 22.50cm Within a black and silvered moulded ...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Rat and the Elephant - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #179
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Rat and the Elephant, 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum 39 x 30 cm (c. 15.5 x 12 in) With COA of the gallery and photo...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

1969 Marc Chagall 'The arrival of Spring" detail
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15 x 22 inches ( 38.1 x 55.88 cm ) Image Size: 12 x 16 inches ( 30.48 x 40.64 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Det...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Vintage Poster Marc Chagall Engraving Exhibition Family Self Portrait
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for an art exhibition of Engraved Work by the notable artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) L'oeuvre Grave held at the National Library / Bibliotheque Nationale Paris from January to March 1970...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Marc Chagall - The Bible - Naomi and her daughters-in-law - 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

La Tranchée - Etching by M. Chagall - 1977
Located in Roma, IT
La Tranchée is a beautiful black and white etching on watermarked BFK Rives paper, realized in 1958 by the artist Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - St. Paul de Vence, 1985). This is an ...
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1920s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Death and The Lumberjack - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #101
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : Death and The Lumberjack, 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 ga...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Clown with Flowers by Marc Chagall, 1963
Located in Long Island City, NY
This lithograph by Chagall is a first edition lithograph from Chagall's Lithographs Volume II. Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian/French (1887 - 1985) Title: The Clown with Flowers Year:...
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - Creation - 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

1973 Marc Chagall 'Moses and Tablets'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches ( 31.75 x 23.495 cm ) Image Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches ( 31.75 x 23.495 cm ) Framed: Yes Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: The overall outside...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall, expressionist, figurative, lithograph print
Located in Köln, DE
"Les saltimbanques" by Marc Chagall is numbered and signed Epreuve d’artiste’ and numbered XXIV/XXV, and is apart from the edition of 50. 76,2 x 53,7 cm. This lithograph from 1969. C...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Child and The Professor - Original Etching - Ref. Sorlier #104
Located in Paris, FR
Marc Chagall Fables : The Child and The Professor , 1952 Original etching Printed signature in the plate Numbered 61 / 85 On Montval vellum 39 x 28 cm (...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Marc Chagall Night in Paris (cover)
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall Night in Paris (cover) Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Lithograph Title: Night in Paris (cover) Portfolio: 1954 Paris - Derriere le Miroir Yea...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

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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 Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

OU EST LE JOUR ("LES POEMES")
Located in Aventura, FL
In 1968 several of Chagall's poems were published in the album "Les Poemes" (The Poems). He also illustrated this album, featuring a series of 24 woodcuts. Unsigned. From the edi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut, Paper

Marc Chagall, Lithographe Volumes I, II, III IV, & Les Affiches de Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marc Chagall, Russian (1887 - 1985) Title: Chagall Lithographe Volumes I, II, III, IV & Les Affiches de Marc Chagall by Cain, Julien, Fernand Mourlot, Charles Sorlier, Robert...
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1970s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Archival Paper, Board

The Mountebanks
Located in Washington, DC
Marc Chagall The Mountebanks Artist: Marc Chagall Medium: Original lithograph Title: The Mountebanks Signed: Unsigned Portfolio: 1963 Mourlot Lithographe II Year: 1963 Edition: Unnum...
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1960s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Cerf et la Vigne - Original Etching by M. Chagall - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Not Signed. From the series "Les Fables de La Fontaine". Catalogue Sorlier No 154. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over ...
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1930s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Scène Biblique
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this lithograph printed in gray and black. Signed and numbered in pencil by Chagall, from an edition of 50.
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1970s Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Paris Opera Ceiling - Institute of Artistic Achievement.
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Poster (provenance unknown). Measures 9 x 13 inches and is Unframed. Good Condition.
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Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - La Vache Bleue (Blue Cow) - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph La Vache Bleue (The Blue Cow) From the unsigned, unnumbered lithograph printed in the literary review XXe Siecle 1967 See Mourlot 488 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro. 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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Lithograph

La Tombe du Père - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
La Tombe du Pére or The Father's Grave is a wonderful and rare dry-point, hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin and hand-numbered on the lower left margin by Marc Chagall. ...
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1920s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Marc Chagall “Ten Commandments”
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) “Ten Commandments” Original Etching with Water Color numbered 46/100 on the lower left margin,Paper Monogrammed by hand of M...
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Late 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Watercolor, Etching

Then the Boy displayed to the Dervish his Bosom… Arabian Nights
Located in London, GB
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985 [Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses] Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes Title: Then the Boy displayed to the Dervish his Bosom…, f...
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1940s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

L'inspiré Self Portrait Marc Chagall Valentina Vava Lithograph 1963 Mourlot 398
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Inspiration or L'inspiré - The artist and his wife, self-portrait. This is a self-portrait of the great artist, depicting him as lost in thought before one of his paintings, which is apparently related to his home country Russia, as suggested by the small figure in the lower right of the work. Chagall’s wife Valentina (“Vava”), who was also from Russia, is looking over his shoulder, full of longing. The small surreal elements that are characteristic of Chagall’s paintings are also present here: the silhouettes of the houses that seems to stick out of the painting and a figure with a flute or trombone standing on its head. Chagall Lithographe, Volume II of the catalogue raisonné of Chagall's lithographic work, see Mourlot 398, 1957-1962, Paris 1963, imprinted by Imprimerie Mourlot for the publisher André Sauret. A lithographic plate from the catalog that was published in 10,000 copies. Condition : Excellent Set inside a cream mount bearing brass cartellino Visible sheet size length 23cm, Height 31.50cm In a carved and gilded frame Frame size Length 44cm, Height 55.5cm The reverse with a paper label in Japanese Provenance : Private Collection, purchased with Lovers in Grey
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1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Cerf se Voyant dans l'Eau - Etching by Marc Chagall - 1952
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints (plus 100 not signed). From the series “Les Fables de La Fontaine”, realized by Chagall between 1952 Image Dimensions : 30 x 24 cm Ref. Cramer 2...
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1920s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Jeremiah's Lamentations, from "The Bible"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: Jeremiah's Lamentations from "The Bible" Publication: Verve, no. 33-34 Year : 1956 Medium: Orig...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall - The Ballet, Frontispiece
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
The Ballet, Frontispiece for the book “Daphnis and Chloe” Lithograph in colors, 1969. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued from an edition of 10,000. Printed ...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Couple in Front of Tree, 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 lithogr...
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1960s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Le Coq Rouge
Located in Long Island City, NY
Date: 1957 Lithograph Edition of 6000 Size: 9 x 15.25 in. (22.86 x 38.74 cm) Frame Size: 15.5 x 22 inches Printer: Mourlot Paris Publisher: Maeght, Paris 1957 Reference: Cramer 34: M...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall-Derriere Le Miroir no. 27-28 Cover-15" x 11"-Lithograph-Modernism
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: DLM27 Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Derriere Le Miroir no. 27-28 Cover Year: Unknown Signed: No Medium: Lithograph Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 10.25...
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21st Century and Contemporary Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

VERS LA RIVE ("LES POEMES")
Located in Aventura, FL
In 1968 several of Chagall's poems were published in the album "Les Poemes" (The Poems). He also illustrated this album, featuring a series of 24 woodcuts. Unsigned. From the edi...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut, Paper

Marc Chagall "Song of the Bow"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MARC CHAGALL ( 1887- 1985 ) “ Song of the Bow” 1958 from ‘The Bible’ Original Etching with hand-coloring in watercolor. Signed with initials and numbered 17/100 in pencil, published...
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Mid-20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Watercolor

Maternité - Rare Book with Etchings by Marc Chagall - 1926
Located in Roma, IT
Maternité is an original Modern Rare book written by Marcel Arland (Varennes-sur-Amance, 1899 – Saint-Sauveur-sur-École, 1986) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Pa...
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1920s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Etching

Marc Chagall - The Bible - David saved by Michal - from VERVE
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Lithograph from Verve depicting an instant of the Bible. Technique: Lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234) On the reverse: another black and white original lithograph (Mourlot no. 257) Year: 1960 Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet) Published by: Éditions de la Revue Verve, Tériade, Paris Printed by: Atelier Mourlot, Paris Documentation / References: Mourlot, F., Chagall Lithograph [II] 1957-1962, A. Sauret, Monte Carlo 1963, nos. 234 and 257 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 Modern Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Ruth and Boaz
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Ruth and Boaz Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Year: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 22 1/4" x 18 3/4" Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall, "Red Maternity", original lithograph, hand signed
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original lithograph created by Marc Chagall in 1980. It is hand signed and numbered from the edition of 50 on Arches wove paper. This piece was published by Maeght i...
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235" Original Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Back Cover of Derrière le Miroir #235, M 946" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This Chagall is a graphic piece, with black lines on a white paper. The main figure is a je...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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 Glaneuse (Ruth Gleaning), " Original Color Lithograph by Marc Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Ruth Glaneuse (Ruth Gleaning), M 246/269" is an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. This original color lithograph was designed for and printed by VERV...
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1960s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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

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Lithograph

From the suite "Les Fables De La Fontaine" original etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985) Title: From the suite "Les Fables De La Fontaine" Year: 1927 Medium: Original etching Edition: fom...
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Early 20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples

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Marc Chagall - The Bible - Ruth at the feet of Boaz - 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

"Cover of "Chagall Lithographe IV, " (M 729), " an Original Lithograph by Chagall
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cover of "Chagall Lithographe IV," (M 729)" an original lithograph by Marc Chagall. It is the original book cover for "Chagall Lithographe IV," catalogue and notes by Charles Sorlie...
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1970s Surrealist Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Paradise
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Paradise Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 22 3/4" x 18 3/4" Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" I...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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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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