Marc Chagall - Nativite

An original litograph on smooth velin paper.

Reference: Charles Sorlier "Illustrated books"
'Editions Sauret et Trinckvel' - in 1990, page 204 - Np. 49
Year: 1950
Dimensions: Sheet size: 38 x 56 cm
Image Size: 38 x 56 cm
Condition: Perfect

Chagall began doing paintings of the Crucifixion after Stalin started purging Jews in the armny and the government and continued after the Nazis began the Holocaust, perhaps as a reminder that there were times in the past when the full power of the state was turned against Jewish rabbis and their followers. It may be significant that this is one of the first two color lithographs that Chagall drew directly on the stone and that it came shortly after Israel's war for independence led to a troubled peace. Included in the 1982 catalogue raisonné of Derriere le Miroir as an original lithograph and mentioned as one of Chagall’s first two solo efforts at color lithography in a 1977 memoir by Aimee Maeght.

The frame has been made graphically for visualisation purpose only.

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