Sale: 517 / Modern Art II, June 18. 2021 in Munich Lot 234

 

234
Marc Chagall
L'Écho, 1961.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 23,750 / $ 25,650

(incl. surcharge)
L'Écho. 1961.
Lithograph in colors.
Mourlot 340. Cramer Livres 46. Signed. Copy aside from the edition. On firm wove paper by Arches (with the watermark). 42 x 64 cm (16.5 x 25.1 in). Sheet: 53,5 x 75,5 cm (21 x 29,7 in).
Sheet 33 from the series "Daphnis and Chloé", presumably unnumbered copy from the suite next to the book edition. Printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris 1961. [SM].
• The series "Daphnis and Chloé" is still the greatest testimony to Chagall's graphic mastery.
• From 1959 to 1961 Marc Chagall illustrated the ancient, bucolic tale of Daphnis and Chloé by Longus for Tériade.
• The bucolic of the literary model is ingeniosuly transferred to Chagall's pictorial language which empasizes the text's pastoral and magical appeal
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234
Marc Chagall
L'Écho, 1961.
Lithograph in colors
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 23,750 / $ 25,650

(incl. surcharge)