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Jean Gabriel Domergue - The Hug - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jea...
Category
1920s Impressionist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Beach
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Beach - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Pear and Nude Back - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Domergue - Naked - Original Signed Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Naked
Signed
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisienne"
Jean-Gabrie...
Category
1950s Impressionist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Woman's Profile - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Profil
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 65 x 44 cm
Category
1950s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Mad Tristan - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Mad Tristan - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
Category
1970s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Pride - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Pride - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsigned a...
Category
1960s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Playing - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Playing - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinckvel...
Category
1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Road to Death - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Road to Death - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Un...
Category
1960s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938
Andre Derain was born in 1...
Category
1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Dufza - Paris - Quai des Grands Augustins - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Dufza - Paris - Quai des Grands Augustins - Original Handsigned Etching
Circa 1940
Handsigned in pencil
Dimensions: 20 x 25 cm
Category
1940s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Dawn - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Dawn - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Guillard
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 233 copies.
SIZE : 41 x 33 cm
REFERENCES : Fiel...
Category
1950s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Alfons Mucha - Original Lithograph - Femmes Art Nouveau
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Title: Decorative Documents
Author: Alfons Mucha.
Publisher: Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 13 Rue Lafayette. Emile Levy publisher. Published ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Satyr - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Satyr - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Circa 1982
On colored paper
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 275
Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm
Category
1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This artwork is a lithograph in colors on wov...
Category
1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Colorful Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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...
Category
1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Lovers - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Under the Fire Coat - Lovers - Original Lithograph
Signed "Jean" in the plate and dated 1954 in the plate.
Joseph Forêt Editions
Dimensions: 4...
Category
1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Albert Schweitzer - Original Handsigned Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Albert Schweitzer - Original Handsigned Engraving
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
1970
Signed in pencil
EA
Jean Schneider, Basel
Reference...
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Engraving
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
Category
1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - Original Etching on Silk
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Bicephale - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x...
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Roger Chapelain-Midy - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
By Roger Chapelain Midy
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Roger Chapelain-Midy
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editi...
Category
1970s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Eye Watches
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Eye Watches - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Nonchalance - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...
Category
1920s Impressionist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938
Andre Derain was born in 1...
Category
1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Double Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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...
Category
1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Alexander Fleming - Original Handsigned Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Alexander Fleming - Original Handsigned Engraving
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
1970
Signed in pencil
EA
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : Field 70-5
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Engraving
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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: 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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1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Tristan Wounded - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Tristan Wounded - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 4/125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Circa 1982
On colored paper
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 275
Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery.
Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau.
A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude Couple
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude Couple - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lops...
Category
1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - Nude with Parrots
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Parrots - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
Embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches...
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Etching
Marc Chagall - Moses - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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: 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...
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1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Heliogravure
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
A vintage heliogravure after Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) titled "La Comedie Humaine", 1954.
Published by Verve, Paris France 1954.
Produced from Picasso's sketches fro...
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1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Leonor Fini - Walking on Death - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Walking on Death - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris...
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1960s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Toads - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Toads - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Circa 1982
On colored paper
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 275
Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm
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1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Heavy Cat - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Heavy Cat - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinckv...
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1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
Signed in the plate
References : Field 67-4 (p. 3...
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Etching
Salvador Dali - The fight with Morhoult - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The fight with Morhoult - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 4/125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
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1970s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Etching
after Henri Matisse - Sleeping Blue Nude - Lithograph
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE
Edition of 200
with the printed signature, as issued
76 x 56 cm
With stamp of the Succession Matisse
References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse
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1950s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Pierre Curie - Original Handsigned Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Pierre Curie - Original Handsigned Engraving
Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.5 cm
1970
Signed in pencil
EA
Jean Schneider, Basel
References : Field 70-5
Provenance : Schneider ...
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Engraving
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...
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1920s Impressionist Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude, Horse and Death
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude, Horse and Death - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Etching
Salvador Dali - Baubo (Woman Riding a Sow), from Faust - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Baubo (Woman Riding a Sow), from Faust
Embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731)
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 B / Michler ...
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Etching
Leonor Fini - Playful Cat - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Playful Cat - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Editions: Trinc...
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1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Woman Angel - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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 Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Crown - Original Etching on Silk
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Crown- from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x ...
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
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Etching
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women's Love - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jea...
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1920s Impressionist Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
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1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
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 Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Leonor Fini - The Cane - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - The Cane - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Les Elus de la Nuit
1986
Conditions: excellent
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 230
Dimensions: 38 x 2...
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1980s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Duality - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
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1930s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
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Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
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1950s Cubist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Leonor Fini - Pleasure - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Pleasure - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsigne...
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1960s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Fountain
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude at the Fountain - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
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1960s Surrealist Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Young Beauty - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Young Beauty - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Uns...
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1960s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Disagreement - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Disagreement - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Uns...
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1960s Modern Gifts For Him 2014
Materials
Lithograph