Marc CHAGALL : L’Enfant ressuscité par Élie (The Child Revived by Elijah), 1958 (signed)

By CHAGALL Marc (1887-1985)

Marc Chagall (1887–1985)
L’Enfant ressuscité par Élie (The Child Revived by Elijah), 1958

Original etching, hand-coloured with watercolour, on Arches wove paper

Signed with initials in pencil lower right “M. Ch.”; numbered 51/100 in pencil lower left; signed in the plate “Chagall” lower centre

Dimensions:
+ Image: 30 × 24 cm (11.8 × 9.4 in.)
+ Mat window: 42 × 28.5 cm (16.5 × 11.2 in.)
+ Frame: 64 × 54 cm (25.2 × 21.3 in.)

Condition: Good condition. Light diagonal crease in the lower right margin, below the signature. Slight waviness of the sheet. Matted and framed under glass in a wooden frame with gilt fillets; not examined out of the frame.

References: Cramer books 30, plate 84 (P. Cramer, Marc Chagall. Catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés, Geneva, 1995)

Period: plate etched 1931–1939; hand-coloured edition published in 1958

Plate 84 of the Bible, the suite of 105 etchings commissioned by Ambroise Vollard and published by Tériade in 1956. In 1958 Tériade issued 100 impressions on Arches, hand-coloured with watercolour, initialled and numbered by Chagall, printed by Raymond Haasen. The scene illustrates 1 Kings 17: Elijah bringing the son of the widow of Zarephath back to life.

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Price : 1400,00 € ( 1568.00 USD )