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[Marc Chagall]. Drawings for the Bible. Text by Gaston Bachelard. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1960. Fir...
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With Twenty-Four Color Lithographs
[Marc Chagall]. Drawings for the Bible. Text
by Gaston Bachelard. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1960.
First American edition. Folio. Fully illustrated by Chagall with
ninety-six black-and-white reproductions and twenty-four color
lithographs on wove paper. Illustrated paper over boards, dust
jacket. Jacket spine just a bit dull, with a short tear and a small
chip, front panel with a longer tear at upper right corner, some
rubbing to jacket. Lithographs are clean and bright. A bright and
fine copy of this wonderfully illustrated edition of Chagall's
drawings for the Bible.
More Information:
"This double number of VERVE contains the drawings made by Chagall in 1958 and 1959 on biblical themes which in general he had not dealt with in his illustrations for the bible reproduced in VERVE 33/34. The present work comprises 96 reproductions in black and white and 24 lithographs in color, as well as a cover specially designed for this volume. The heliogravure in black and white by the master printers DRAEGER Frères and the lithography in color by Mourlot Frères." Cramer 42. Mourlot 230-277. Sorlier 75.
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