Les Ames Mortes
1923-1927 (published 1948)
Artist, Russian, 1887 - 1985
Printer, French, active mid 20th century
Printer, French, active first half 20th century
Author, Russian, 1809 - 1852
Editor, French, 1866 - 1939
Artwork overview
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Medium
unbound volume in 2 parts with 96 loose etchings in black; text translated from the Russian by Henri Mongault (1888-1941); title page; limitation notice; table of contents; 11 etched head-pieces; 309 p. text; table of plates with tail-piece portraitsof Gogol, Vollard, and Chagall
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 38.1 x 27.9 cm (15 x 11 in.)
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Accession
1993.46.1-96
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Catalogue Raisonné
Kornfeld 1970, undescribed
Associated Artworks
See all 96 artworksMadame Korobotchka (Madame Korobochka)
Marc Chagall, Raymond Haasen, Louis Fort, Ambroise Vollard
1923
En route vers Sobakévitch (On Route to Sobakievich's)
Marc Chagall, Louis Fort, Raymond Haasen, Ambroise Vollard
1923
Rencontre d'un paysan (Chichikov Beckons to a Peasant)
Marc Chagall, Raymond Haasen, Louis Fort, Ambroise Vollard
1923
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard E. Pinkus; gift to NGA, 1993.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1970
Kornfeld, Eberhard W. Verzeichnis der Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte von Marc Chagall. Band I: Werke 1922-1966. Bern: Kornfeld and Klipstein, 1970.
Inscriptions
under limitation notice (vol. I) in black ink: Marc Chagall; on title page (vol. I): MCMXLVIII
Watermarks
LES AMES MORTES / ARCHES