Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 2,337
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
INSCRIBED BY CHAGALL IN RUSSIAN CHAGALL, MARC. Chagall Lithographe. Volume 1: 1922-1956. German Edition with German text. 9 color and 2 black-and-white lithographed plates by Chagall; reproductions. 4to, cloth; dust jacket, light wear. Monte Carlo, (1960)

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inscribed and signed by chagall in russian from Vence 1961 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 artistic circles.