Marc CHAGALL / Chagall Oeuvres 1908-1951 Signed 1st Edition

Plus plates, and additional 20pp. Of text in Hebrew language. Fully bilingual text, in French and Hebrew. Mild foxing to the wrappers, else a clean, sound example of this scarce exhibition catalog.

This copy SIGNED boldly by the artist on the front wrapper: Marc Chagall 1951 Israel. Chagall visited the state of Israel in 1951 for the first time, when the new state hosted its first exhibition of his work. It was around this time when he began to move away from painting and into glass windows, murals, and other large-format works (such as the ceiling for the Paris Opera). A significant and quite scarce signed copy of a meaningful document in Chagall's working life, commemorating the Jewish artist's first visit to Israel. As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects.

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