| Title: |
Mother and Child in front of Notre Dame |
| Artist: |
Chagall, Marc (Vitebsk, Russia, 1887 - St. Paul-De-Vence, France, 1985) |
| Date: |
1952 |
| Medium: |
Original Lithograph |
| Publication: |
Verve, Paris |
| Printer: |
Fernand Mourlot, Paris |
| Note: |
Marc Chagall: The name of Marc Chagall requires
little introduction for, along with Picasso, Matisse and Miro, he stands
at the summit of twentieth century art. More than any artist of any time,
Chagall was the master interpreter of dreams and allegories. These he delineated
with an astonishing innocence and purity and -- as his long, productive
career advanced -- he turned mostly towards original lithography as his
most favoured vehicle of artistic expression. |
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Born into a poor family in Russian Vitebsk, Marc Chagall first began to paint
in 1907. He attended an art school in St. Petersburg for several years
before leaving for Paris in 1910 to study under the famous stage designer,
Leon Bakst. His first major exhibition of art took place in Berlin in 1914
and had an immediate influence upon the course of contemporary German Expressionism.
Marc Chagall was forced to return to Russia during the First World War but returned
to permanently live in the Paris suburb of Vence in 1931. With the exception
of the occupation of Paris in World War Two, Marc Chagall resided in Vence for
the rest of his life. |
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Marc Chagall executed his first important series of prints in 1922. Commissioned
mainly by Vollard his early graphic art was almost exclusively in the medium
of etching. Chagall was introduced in 1948 to original lithography by Fernand
Mourlot, owner of one of the world's great lithography workshops. During
the following thirty-five years over one thousand original lithographs
were created by his hand. These amazing and vibrant works of art place
Chagall as perhaps the greatest lithographer of modern art. |
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Marc Chagall's earliest lithographs were created in black and
white. In 1952 he attempted his first lithographs in colours; three compositions
for the lithographic set, Visions de Paris and a single lithograph
entitled, Bonjour sur Paris. Mother and Child in front of
Notre Dame hails from the Visions de Paris set. |
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Consisting of three colour and four black and white lithographs Visions
de Paris marks an important cornerstone in Chagall's career. Executed shortly
after the end of the Second World War, these lithographs commemorate both
Marc Chagall's return to his beloved city and the resumption of peace. Many
of the famous images and symbols which are synonymous with Chagall's art
are introduced here. Most important, however, is his rich and textured
introduction of colours. These most important prints thus set the stage
for the famous colour lithographs the artist created from 1952 to 1985. |
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The seven original lithographs for Visions de Paris were
commissioned by the Paris publisher, Verve, and were bound into
their 1952 double number volume on pages 127 to 134. (At the same time
these lithographs were individually issued in a small, pencil signed
edition of 75 impressions.) Both sides of the sturdy, wove paper were
used for printing and therefore a black and white lithograph appears
on the verso of this original colour lithograph. The black and white
lithograph on the verso of Mother and Child in front of Notre Dame is
a view of the Seine from Chagall's studio. He has written these lines
within the stone under this image,
“Visions de Paris qui sont peut-etre
les memes et qui ne sont pas
les memes
Paris reflet de mon coeur.
Je voudrais m'y fondre, ne point etre
seul avec moi - meme
Marc Chagall,
1952”
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Verve: From 1937 to 1960 Verve was a leader
for promoting modern movements in art. Printed and published in Paris,
this periodical contained major articles on and by leading contemporary
artists. More importantly, each issue contained at least one original print
created specifically for the publication. |
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Some of the most sought after original lithographs of the
twentieth century appeared in 1952 double number (#27 & 28) of Verve.
These included Marc Chagall's complete Visions de Paris set, Henri
Matisse's, The Sadness of the King, Leger's, The Outing,
Andre Masson's, Le Torrent, Miro's, The Dog Barking at the
Moon and original lithographs in both colours and black and white
by Georges Braque, Henri Laurens, Alberto Giacometti, Francisco Bores and
Marcel Gromaire. Original works of art printed by Verve never appeared
in pencil signed and limited editions, but most were published in numbers
of two thousand five hundred or less. |
| Raisonne: |
Fernand Mourlot, ed., Chagall Lithographie (1922-1957), Paris, Andre
Sauret, 1960. |
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Mourlot #82, Second and final State as issued by Verve in
December, 1952. |
| Source: |
Verve (Moods and Movements in Art) |
| Size: |
14 X 10 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
| Condition: |
Printed upon thick, wove paper and with full margins as published
in Paris for Verve in 1952. A fine, full colour impression and
in excellent condition throughout. This original lithograph entitled Mother
and Child in front of Notre Dame represents a most important example
of the art of Marc Chagall. |
| Price: |
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