Original Etching, 1977, on BFK Rives paper watermarked ME (Maeght Editeur), an unsigned proof (as always)
Size: 330 x 435 mms (Paper size); 235 x 315 mms (Plate size)Marc Chagall “Et sur la terre
Edition: Et sur la terre was issued in an edition of 205 portfolios printed on velin d'Rives, each of which was signed on the colophon by Chagall and numbered. The first 25 portfolios contained an additional impression of the frontispiece signed and numbered by Chagall.
Note: This comes from a book by Andre Malreaux entitled “Et sur la Terre” which was illustrated with 15 etchings by Marc Chagall. Andre Malraux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, hero of the Resistance against the Nazis, and Minister of Culture in the government of Charles de Gaulle, is based upon a previously unpublished text Malraux wrote in 1939 about his experiences fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War against Franco and his Fascist and Nazi allies. This work shows a young boy seated beside his cat in his home in Barcelona aware that his city is burning and his people suffering. The copper plates were cancelled after printing.
Reference: Patrick Cramer, Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books (Geneva: Patrick Cramer Publisher, 1995) No 103; Roger Passeron, Maîtres de la Gravure: Chagall (Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1984); Charles Sorlier, Le Livre des Livres / The Illustrated Books (Monte Carlo: Editions André Sauret, 1990). Cramer illustrates all fifteen of the etchings, Sorlier illustrates three, and one is included in Passeron; Gallerie Maeght : “Quarante ans d’edition Maeght” - Page 107 Published by Gallerie Maeght, Paris, France
Printed by: Atelier Lacouriere et Frelaut, Paris, France

Good - Framed in black frame.