139 - Marc Chagall (Vitebsk 1887–1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence), after “La Sirène” (The Siren), ca. 1950, print made using the Jacomet process based on Chagall’s 1945 gouache of the same name, signed and dated on the printing block at the lower right, numbered “413/500” in pencil at the lower left, slightly worn around the edges overall and showing minimal signs of age, 56.5 x 43 cm; the elaborate printing process developed by Daniel Jacomet (1894–1966) combined phototype and hand-applied stencil coloring (pochoir), mounted under glass and a mat in a gilded frame by Conzen, overall size: 85 x 71 cm. Limit 180,-

Marc Chagall (Vitebsk 1887–1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence), after “La Sirène” (The Siren), ca. 1950, print made using the Jacomet process based on Chagall’s 1945 gouache of the same name, signed and dated on the printing block at the lower right, numbered “413/500” in pencil at the lower left, slightly worn around the edges overall and showing minimal signs of age, 56.5 x 43 cm; the elaborate printing process developed by Daniel Jacomet (1894–1966) combined phototype and hand-applied stencil coloring (pochoir), mounted under glass and a mat in a gilded frame by Conzen, overall size: 85 x 71 cm. Limit 180,- >> A significant Russian-French painter and printmaker, a student of Léon Bakst; lived in Paris from 1910 to 1914; little appreciated in post-revolutionary St. Petersburg, he emigrated to Berlin in 1922 and settled permanently in Paris in 1923.