Signed book: Chagall ou L'orage enchanté. First edition. Geneve–Paris: Editions Des Trois Collines, 1948. Softcover with dust jacket, 7.5 x 9.75, 196 pages. Signed and inscribed in French on the half-title page, "Pour Sam and Helen Slosberg, Souvenir, Marc Chagall," with date above, "Brandeis Univ. 1960." Chagall adds a wonderful full-page sketch in green, yellow, and pink crayon of a person with cup looking up in awe at an angel, with a crescent moon pictured in the upper left corner. Includes a custom leather-bound clamshell case. In fine condition, with tiny splits at spine ends. After assuming his post at Brandeis as the university's first Jack I. Poses artist-in-residence in January 1960, Chagall soon commenced work on a ceramic composition mural in the library on the Waltham campus. A marvelously rare edition with a beautiful original drawing from one of history's foremost artistic minds.

Format: Sketch in Book