291 - Marc Chagall. Bible. I [and] II. Paris, Tériade 1956. With 105 etchings. Loose sheets and double sheets, each in a slipcase. Together in a slipcase.

Marc Chagall. Bible. I [and] II. Paris, Tériade 1956. With 105 etchings. Loose sheets and double sheets, each in a slipcase. Together in a slipcase. Starting time: approx. 3:44 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of 275 copies (total edition of 295). - Printed on Montval handmade paper. - Signed by the artist in the printer’s mark. - “The work was begun for Ambroise Vollard between 1931 and 1939 and completed for Tériade between 1952 and 1956. Sixty-six etchings were printed by 1939 in Maurice Potin’s studio under the artist’s supervision; the remaining 39 were produced in collaboration with Chagall in Raymond Haasen’s studio from 1952 to 1956.” (Sprengel, Bottrop Cat. 1982, p. 168). - “Since the spirit and the world of the Bible occupy a large place within me, I try to express them as well. It is important to depict the elements of the world that are not visible, rather than to reproduce nature as it appears.” (quoted from Cat. Bottrop 1982, p. 168). Cramer 29. - Monod 1532. - Rauch 148. - V&A 1985 88. - ABF, p. 326. - A&B 53 45.5 × 34.5 cm. [136] pages, 57 etchings; [112] pages, 48 etchings. - A few pages with minor foxing in the margins, only sporadically in the margins of an etching. English description: With 105 etchings. Loose sheets and double sheets, each in a chemise. Together in a slipcase. One of 275 copies (total print run of 295). - Printed on Montval hand-made paper. - Signed by the artist in the colophon. - “The work was begun for Ambroise Vollard from 1931 to 1939 and completed for Tériade from 1952 to 1956. Sixty-six etchings were printed by 1939 in Maurice Potin’s studio under the artist’s supervision; the remaining 39 were produced in collaboration with Chagall in Raymond Haasen’s studio from 1952 to 1956.” (Sprengel, Bottrop Cat. 1982, p. 168). - “Since the spirit and the world of the Bible occupy a large place within me, I try to express them as well. It is important to depict the elements of the world that are not visible, rather than to reproduce nature in its outward appearances.” (quoted from Schmalenbach/Sorlier, Sprengel, Cat. Bottrop 1982, p. 168). A few pages show some foxing in the margins; only sporadically in the margins of one etching.