May 01, 2003 - Sale 1969

Sale 1969 - Lot 415

Price Realized: $ 23,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
MARC CHAGALL
Les Ames Mortes by Nicolas Gogol.

Portfolio with complete text and 96 etchings with drypoint, 11 etched vignettes and 11 index plates with etched outlines of the prints, 1924-48. 380x285 mm; 15x111/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

One of 285 numbered copies, of a total edition of 368. Signed in ink and numbered 294 on the justification page. Printed by Louis Fort under the direction of Ambroise Vollard, Paris. Published by Tériade, Paris.

Original cream paste board folders, lacks the slipcases. Very good impressions of these important, early prints. Cramer 17.