{"id":13879,"date":"2013-01-15T13:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=13879"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:25:37","slug":"featured-marc-chagall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-marc-chagall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: MARC CHAGALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Marc Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes that reflected his Jewish heritage. <\/span>In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall engaged in a series of large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings. Chagall&#8217;s artworks are difficult to categorize. Working in the pre-World War I Paris art world, he was involved with avant-garde currents, however, his work was consistently on the fringes of popular art movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism, among others. He was closely associated with the Paris School and its exponents, including Amedeo Modigliani.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;The only one comparable in our time with Picasso as a graphic artist is Chagall, and nothing even the former has done as a graphic artist quite matches in intensity or integrity these illustrations of Chagall\u2019s for the Bible.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> &#8211; Clement Greenberg (1957)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> A Rare and sought after book which first appeared as a double issue of Verve (Verve Vol. VII, No&#8217;s 33 and 34)\u00a0 16 lithographs in color + the cover, 12 lithographs in black, and 105 heliogravures in black. All color lithographs and black and white lithographs by Marc Chagall are present and in excellent condition. First printing of the first American edition, published by Harcourt, Brace and Comapny in 1956. Lithography printed by Mourlot in France. Text by Jean Wahl, with an appreciation by Meyer Schapiro. Hard bound, no dust jacket. Missing backstrip, with front board detached, but present. The bards show wear with some chipping to corners and edges. Interior clean with all lithography fine. Several of the pages with heliogravures show light foxing, as do the end pages. This landmark book of lithography is rare and sought after by both art and print collectors, and routinely sells for thousands of dollars<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 30941<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Illustrations for the Bible By Marc Chagall<br \/>\nVERVE 1956 #33\/34<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Chagall, Marc<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Harcourt Brace and Company, New York<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>1956<br \/>\n<strong>Binding: <\/strong>Hard Cover<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition: <\/strong>Good+ \/ with Lithographs Fine<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Missing original jacket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes that reflected his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall engaged in a series of large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings. Chagall&#8217;s artworks are difficult to categorize. Working in the pre-World War I Paris art world, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13879"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14959,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions\/14959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}