Chagall Marc, Signed Numbered Color Lithograph, 1954 Start Price USD 21,500.00 Current Price USD 21,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, May 12, 2008 End Time Thursday, May 22, 2008 Location Masterworks Fine Art, Oakland Hills, CA See more about 'Chagall Marc, Signed Numbered Color Lithograph, 1954' Description ARTIST: Marc Chagall (1887-1985) TITLE: L'Ange (The Angel), 1960 MEDIUM: Original Color Lithograph IMAGE SIZE: 12 ¼" x 10 ¼" (31.12cm x 26.04cm) FRAMED SIZE: 35" x 32" (88.9cm x 81.28cm) SIGNATURE: Hand signed by Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin. EDITION: Notated 'epreuve d'artiste' (artist's proof) in pencil in the lower left margin. CONDITION: This work is in very good condition with strong, bold colors. DISCUSSION: Using bold expressive forms, Chagall creates a poignant image depicting an angel and heifer. Using darkened tones, the artist forces the viewer to draw closer to the work creating an intimate relationship between viewer and composition. Created in 1960, this image was one of nine color lithographs created to accompany the first volume of The Lithographs of Chagall by Fernand Mourlot. The work is pulled form an edition of forty aside from the book edition of 100 and is printed on Arches paper. Emerging from the dark sepia background, the sun explodes highlighting the face and wings of the angel. Chagall surrounds the angel and heifer with a tranquil blue that conveys a sense of new beginnings and hope free from the barren landscape that surrounds them. As the angel serves as the focal point of the image, he/she appears focused upon aiding in the passage of the heifer across the ominous landscape. "It is possible to be gifted in the handling of lines, even on the architectural level. But what is most important is the blood, and the blood is, for the artist, the colour. Colour and all its distinctions are the pulse of the organism. Colour is the pulse of a work of art… The same can be said about colour as is said about music: "The depth of colour goes through the eyes and remains within the soul, in the same way that music enters the ear and stays in the soul." Chagall, excerpt from lecture in Chicago, February 1958 (Baal - Teshuva, 180-181) Differing greatly from his contemporaries, Braque, Picasso and Miro, Chagall developed his own aesthetic which relied upon the use of definable forms and poetics of color. CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ & COA: It is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work): 1) Mourlot, Fernand, The Lithographs of Chagall 1957-1962, 1963, listed on page 92 and 96-97 as image 288. 2) Cramer, Patrick, Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books, 1995, listed on pages 148-149 as No. 43. 3) Gauss, Ulrike, Marc Chagall The Lithographs La Collection Sorlier, 1999, listed on page 128 as image 288 ABOUT THE FRAMING: Framed in museum-quality, archival materials, this work is set in a Baroque-style gold leaf frame. The shimmering tones of the gold moulding complements the bold tones in the work, found in the greens, blues, and thick black strokes throughout. L'Ange is completed with white, linen-wrapped mats and a matching gold inner fillet, finished behind an archival Plexiglas® cover. I. WHO IS MASTERWORKS FINE ART? II, QUESTIONS ABOUT BUYING FROM US? 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