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MARC CHAGALL L'Odyssée I--Polyphème.
Color lithograph with additions in white and light bluish gray wash, 1974-75. 422x657 mm; 16 5/8x25 7/8 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 250. Signed in pencil, lower right. Printed and published by Mourlot, Paris. From the same-titled portfolio. A very good impression with strong colors.
Chagall's lithographs for the Odyssey were amoung his grandest illustration projects and a massive endeavor for the 87-year-old artist at the time. All together he created 82 lithographs, many of them in colors and 5 in this double-page size, for Homer's epic tale. Mourlot 776.
