Lot 145 | Marc Chagall | Mixed Lot of 5 Prints

CHAGALL, MARC
1887 Vitebsk - 1985 St. Paul de Vence

Title: Mixed Lot of 5 Prints.
a) La Tour Eiffel à l'Ane (Eiffel Tower and Donkey) (From: Derrière le Miroir). 1954.
Colour lithograph on vellum. 38,5 x 28cm. Verso with text (excerpt from book). b) Place de
la Concorde (From: Revue Verve no. 27-28). 1952. Colour lithograph on vellum. 35,5 x
26,5cm. c) Les Monstres de Notre-Dame (The Monsters of Notre-Dame) (From: Derrière le
Miroir). 1954. Colour lithograph on vellum. 38,5 x 28cm. Verso with text (excerpt from
book). d) L'Opéra (The Opera) (From: Derrière le Miroir). 1954. Colour lithograph on
vellum. 38,5 x 28cm. Verso with text (excerpt from book). e) Saint-Germain-des-Prés (From:
Derrière le Miroir). 1954. Colour lithograph on vellum. 38,5 x 28cm. Verso with text
(excerpt from book).


Condition:
b) Slightly wavy. d) Slightly wavy. Verso slight rubbings on the surface (traces of moisture?). Each: Colours slightly faded, especially the red colours. Minimally discoloured. Verso remains of an old mounting as well as slightly discoloured. Otherwise good condition.

a), c) to e) From the series "Derrière le Miroir" with originally 11 lithographs by the artist, which was created as an exhibition catalogue on the occasion of the 1954 exhibition in the Galerie Maeght.

b) From Revue Verve no. 27/28 from December 1952. Several artists had contributed here. The Revue was published with an edition size of 6,000 copies, 75 of which were numbered.

Provenance:
- Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (according to consignor)
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen

Exhibitions:
- Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013

Literature:
- Cain, Julien: Chagall - Lithograph I, Monte Carlo 1960, a) cat. rais. no. 97, b) cat. rais. no. 83, c) cat. rais. no. 101, d) cat. rais. no. 102, e) cat. rais. no. 100
- Exhibition catalogue From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, pp. 136/137.