May 04, 2006 - Sale 2078

Sale 2078 - Lot 426

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
MARC CHAGALL (after)
Le Coq.

Color lithograph mounted on cream wove paper, 1952. 260x197 mm; 10 1/4x7 7/8 inches. Signed in ink on the mount, lower right.

The cover of a menu for a dinner given at the Fondation Maeght, St. Paul, August 7, 1967, celebrating Chagall's 80th birthday, with 2 pages of printed text inside detailing the music, poetry and menu for the evening.

Not cited in Mourlot in this form. Extremely scarce, we have not found another menu in this form at auction in the past 20 years. Mourlot CS 3.