Chagall, Marc, Signed Numbered Color Lithograph, 1954 Start Price USD 19,000.00 Current Price USD 19,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, June 26, 2008 End Time Sunday, July 06, 2008 Location Masterworks Fine Art, Oakland Hills, CA See more about 'Chagall, Marc, Signed Numbered Color Lithograph, 1954' Description --> home current inventory search art knowledge art commentary buy art about us contact us Artist: Chagall, Marc (1887 - 1985)Title: L'Ange (The Angel), 1960Medium: Original Color LithographImage Size: 12 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in (31.12 cm x 26.04 cm)Sheet Size: 20 7/8 in x 12 13/16 in (53 cm x 32.5 cm)Framed Size: 35 in x 32 in (88.9 cm x 81.28 cm)Signature: Hand signed by Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) in pencil in the lower rightEdition: epreuve d'artiste (artist proof) aside from the edition of 100 in pencil in the lower leftCondition: Excellent  Description: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 from 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.” [Marc Chagall, excerpt from lecture in Chicago, February 1958] 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. Style: Modern Master Who is Masterworks Fine Art? Masterworks Fine Art, Inc. strives to be the best source of fine art for our clients and collectors all over the world. 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