Sale 1232
| Chicago
| Chicago
Estimate$20,000 – $30,000
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Comité Chagall.
Provenance:
Private Collection, USA
Sold: Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen, Bern, June 6, 2018, Lot 33
Acquired at the above by the present owner
Literature:Mourlot 3, one of a total of three known examples, the hand-colored example.
Lot note:
During his first stay in Berlin in the years 1922-1923, Chagall created graphic works for the first time, including 24 lithographs. Only three copies of this impression have survived, this example being unique for its hand coloring by the artist and reproduced by Mourlot in his catalogue raisonné. An extreme rarity from the graphic work.
Unframed.
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 14 7/8 inches.
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Madalina Lazen
VP Head of Department, Old Masters & 19th Century European Art