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MARC CHAGALL Les Fables de la Fontaine.
Set 98 (of 100) etchings on Montval cream wove paper, 1927-30. 400x310 mm; 15 3/4x12 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.
A nearly complete suite of the etchings printed in black, from the deluxe edition of 40 (which contained 2 suites of 100 etchings each: one printed on Japon nacré and the other on Montval), from a total edition of 200. Printed by Maurice Potin, Paris. Published by Tériade, Paris. Original gray paste board portfolio folder.
With an etching from the same suite with hand coloring in watercolor. Superb, dark and richly-inked impressions. Cramer 22.
