A Ceiling with an Angel Carrying a Bouquet

published 1966, drawing dated 1968

Marc Chagall

Artist, Russian, 1887 - 1985

Mourlot Fréres

Printer

Charles Sorlier

Artist After, French, 1921 - 1990

Marc Chagall and Charles Sorlier after Chagall

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 lithograph on frontispiece and 1 drawing in blue felt-tip pen by Chagall and 6 lithographs by Sorlier after Chagall

  • Credit Line

    The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.6 x 24.2 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
    book: 34.5 x 25.3 x 2 cm (13 9/16 x 9 15/16 x 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.60.98

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mourlot 1960, no. 434

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1960

  • Mourlot, Fernand. The Lithographs of Chagall 1960-1986. vol. 3. Monte-Carlo, 1969: 83, no. 434.

Inscriptions

in blue pen across top of title-page: Pour les Nef; center: M / A / R / C; bottom center: Chagall / 1968 / amitie; in print: Marc Chagall / the Ceiling / of the Paris Opera

Markings

bookshop stamp on 1st free end-paper: Savile Books Shop / 3236 P St. N.W. / Washington DC / lassaigre J. / Chagall Ceiling / of the Opera / 27.50

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