Moses Presenting the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites

published 1972, drawing dated 1973

Marc Chagall

Associated Names
Marc Chagall

Artist, Russian, 1887 - 1985

The image shows an abstract composition with flowing blue and black lines resembling a figure holding tablets, along with smaller figures drawn with minimalistic black lines. The background is primarily blue and white.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 lithograph on first free end-paper and 1 drawing in colored crayon on title-page

  • Credit Line

    The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 32 x 24.3 cm (12 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)
    book: 32.5 x 25.5 x 2.8 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/16 x 1 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.60.96

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mourlot 1960, undesc.

  • Volume Title

    Le Message Biblique Marc Chagall

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Evelyn Nef, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1960

  • Mourlot, Fernand and Charles Sorlier. The Lithographs of Chagall 1960-1986. vol. 4. Monte-Carlo, 1974: undesc.

Inscriptions

in black crayon facing title-page: Pour les amis / 1973 Nef; underlined: Marc Chagall; on page 1b in black ink: Marc Chagall (underlined) / 15. Nov. 1972

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