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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MARC CHAGALL Die Wollust, III.
Etching and drypoint printed in sanguine on cream laid paper, 1925. 170x117 mm; 6 3/4x4 3/4 inches, full margins. The planche libre, edition of 16 on Japan paper (there were also 44 printed on laid paper). Signed in pencil, lower right. Printed by Louis Fort, Paris. Published by Simon Kra, Paris. From Les sept Péchés capitaux. A superb, richly-inked impression.
According to Kornfeld, though issued unsigned initially, sometimes the plates from Les sept Péchés capitaux were later signed by Chagall. Other pencil-signed impressions from the series have sold at Kornfeld (June 2012, lots 246 and 247). Kornfeld 62.
