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The Automobilist, from: My Life by Marc Chagall

Gilden's Art Gallery (IFPDA)

Etching and Drypoint

1922

Edition Size: 110

Image Size: 20.5 x 17.8 cm

Sheet Size: 35.2 x 27.1 cm

Reference: Kornfeld 26

Signed

Condition: Good

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This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at the lower left margin.
There were 84 impressions on laid paper and a further 26 impressions on Japan paper.
It was published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin in 1923.

Note: The work was part of Chagall’s important and renowned series “Mein Leben” (My Life), which included different etchings, all relating to significant events in his life. It was intended to illustrate his first autobiography.

Literature: Kornfeld, E.W. (1971). Marc Chagall – Catalogue Raisonné de l’ouevre gravé. Vol I 1922-1966. Bern: Kornfeld & Klipstein.
Reference: Kornfeld 26

Condition: Very good condition. The sheet is lightly toned. Minor, pinpoint foxing scattered across the sheet.

$6,000.00

The Artist

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall began using printmaking techniques when he was 35 years old. He produced a lot of lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts while residing in Berlin, Germany, during the time. The art dealer Vollard hired Chagall in 1923 to illustrate the Bible, La Fontaine’s Fables, and The Dead Souls by Gogol.

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