Details
- Dimensions
- 7.09ʺW × 0.39ʺD × 9.45ʺH
- Styles
- Modern
- Art Subjects
- Figure
- Period
- 1980s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Condition Notes
- Excellent — This vintage piece is in near original condition. It may show minimal traces of use and/or have slight … moreExcellent — This vintage piece is in near original condition. It may show minimal traces of use and/or have slight restorations. less
- Description
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This 13 pages long cycle is one of the most beautiful lithographic series which has been created by Marc Chagall. …
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This 13 pages long cycle is one of the most beautiful lithographic series which has been created by Marc Chagall. It was based on the stories of one of the great treasures of world literature « Stories of Thousand and One Nights « known to us as « Arabian Nights » as well, that at Chagall’s time was very popular among educated Russians.
Those 1001 stories, originated in India as early as 250 A.D., and later mixed with Persian, Egyptian, and Arabian stories, modified by Greek, Hebrew and Babylonian influences, have an exciting background: Sultan Shariar, deeply disappointed by his unfaithful wife, sentenced her to death. He believed that such unfaithfulness is common to all women and was looking for cruel revenge. He ordered his vizir to bring him every night a beautiful virgin who was sentenced to death after having spent just one night together with him. Scheherazade, the vizir’s daughter, could terminate those terrible sacrifices of beautiful women. When she spent the first night with the Sultan, she started to tell him exciting stories and stopped at the end of the night at a particularly suspense part of each story, so that the Sultan couldn’t wait for the next night to hear the continuation of the story. Finally, after 1001 nights, he showed mercy and left her alive. The content of the stories are the dangers and adventures to achieve fulfillment of wonderful wishes.
Using beautifully colored lithographies, Chagall, the poet among the painters, found a medium to implement his imaginations into graphic art. For this series he created 13 colored lithographies, printed by Albert Carman, and for the first time issued as a folder of just 111 copies by Panthon Books (New York) in 1948. The current series of 333 copies has been issued as a special edition in the year of Chagall’s death. So, he couldn’t sign them. The editor provided his embossed signature instead. Perfect condition, mounted on acid-free passepartout, some of the lithographies are framed (wooden frame with golden collour), some have been never used. I have official proof of authenticity such as vintage catalogs,
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