Mar 05, 2015 - Sale 2375

Sale 2375 - Lot 545

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
MARC CHAGALL
Gogol et Chagall.

Etching and drypoint, 1923-27. 276x215 mm; 10 7/8x8 1/2 inches, full margins. The bon à tirer proof, aside from the edition of 368. Initialed and inscribed "Bon" in pencil, lower right. Printed by Louis Fort under the direction of Ambroise Vollard, Paris. Published by Tériade, Paris. From Les Ames Mortes by Nicolas Gogol. A superb impression.

The figure lower right with the palette is a self portrait; the figure lower left is a portrait of the author Gogol. Vollard 48.