Auction 53 - Rare and Important Items

Lot 168

"Chagall Windows" - Twelve Numbered Lithographs

Opening: $7,000
Sold for: $8,750
Including buyer's premium
Marc Chagall, Douze Maquettes de Vitraux pour Jérusalem, [Twelve Maquettes of Stained Glass Windows for Jerusalem]. Paris: Fernand Mourlot, 1964. French.
Portfolio with twelve lithographs in color (complete set) - Chagall's designs of the stained glass windows for the Synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem.
The lithographs were printed by Charles Sorlier, under Chagall's supervision, and are accompanied by an introduction (two leaves) by Julien Cain, with two original lithographs by Chagall.
Copy no. LIV/LXXV (from an edition of seventy five copies). Each lithograph is numbered in pencil. Lithographs are not signed.
[4] leaves + [12] lithographs, 52.5X74 cm. Good condition. Foxing to margins of leaves and on verso. Original cloth-covered portfolio (stains).
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