Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 4,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
INSCRIBED WTH A DRAWING (CHAGALL, MARC.) Meyer, Franz. Marc Chagall: Leben und Werk. Hundreds of color and black-and-white reproductions. Thick 4to, pictorial grey cloth; dust jacket, edgeworn. Cologne: Schauberg, (1961)

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inscribed and signed by chagall with an original ink drawing of a man holding a bouquet of flowers heightened with blue, pink, and green chalk; dated Vence 1963. Inscribed and Signed in Russian to Gershon "Grischa" Swet, an active member of New York's Russian Jewish community. He wrote for the Yiddish Forward and Novo Russko Slovoye among other papers, and was friendly with Yasha Heifetz, Jan Peerce, and Chagall, among others in the city's artistic circles.