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MARC CHAGALL Bible.
Portfolio with complete text and 105 etchings, 1931-39. 430x332 mm; 17x13 1/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
One of 275 numbered copies. Signed in ink and numbered "103" on the justification page. Printed by Haasen, Paris. Published by Tériade, Paris. Gray pasteboard portfolio folders and gray linen slipcase. Very good, richly-inked impressions of these important prints.
Chagall commenced this project, one of the few major Bible illustrations of the 20th-century, after his return from travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the early 1930s. The legendary Parisian publisher Ambroise Vollard had commissioned the project. At Vollard's death in 1939, Chagall had completed 105 etchings; these were proved by the printer Maurice Potin in Paris. Tériade resumed the project and ultimately saw the portfolio to publication, with the plates printed by Haasen, in 1956. Vollard 199-303.
