Description
Marc Chagall (1887–1995)
4 plates for La Fontaine’s Fables, published by Tériade, 1952. (The Partridge and the Cocks; The Fox and the Guinea Fowl; The Hen that Laid the Golden Eggs; The Bear and the Garden Lover). Etching. 240 x 300 mm. Cramer 22. Very fine and fresh prints on Montval laid paper, fully-sized and signed in pencil. Full margins. Included: plate 8 for N. Gogol, *Dead Souls*, Paris, Tériade, 1948. Etching. 225 x 285 mm. Cramer 17. A fine print on vellum, bearing a signature in pencil. A band of oxidation and minor tears at the edges of the sheet. Full margins. Set of 5 sheets.
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