A Ceiling with an Angel Carrying a Bouquet, published 1966, drawing dated 1968

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volume Title

Marc Chagall: The Ceiling of the Paris Opera

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

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.)

Credit Line

The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mourlot 1960, no. 434

Accession Number

2011.60.98

Artists / Makers

Marc Chagall (artist) Russian, 1887 - 1985

Charles Sorlier (artist after) French, 1921 - 1990

Mourlot Fréres (printer)

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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Nef, Evelyn Stefansson

Bibliography

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