Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 44

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CHAGALL, MARC.) Goll, Claire. Journal d'un Cheval. 2 etchings and 4 lithographs after Chagall. Printed in red and black. 4to, contents loose as issued in color pictorial wrappers by Chagall; board portfolio cover with ribbons containing a wood engraving in russet, designed and cut by Robert Blanchet. Paris: Manuel Bruker, 1952

Additional Details

number 111 of 150 copies on rives from a total edition of 200. Claire Goll, poet, and wife of Ivan Goll was a left-wing journalist and antiwar activist who associated with many French Surrealist writers and artists. This work, describing the life of an activist committee member as seen through the eyes of a horse, was first published in 1922. Strachan, The Artist and the Book in France, page 327 (for Blanchet's cover); Wilson & Schleuter. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe, 2013.