MARC CHAGALL Hand coloured and Signed Etching Bible

MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence (Russian/French)

Title: The Descent Toward Sodom, from: Bible | Descente vers Sodome, from: Bible, 1956

Technique: Original Hand-Coloured Etching with Watercolour on Arches Wove Paper

Paper size : 53.5 X 39 cm / 20.9 X 15.35 in
Image size : 32.5 X 23.5 cm / 12.8 X 9.25 in

Additional Information: This etching is hand-coloured by the artist in yellow, red and green watercolour.
It is signed in pencil "M. Ch." in the lower right margins.
It is numbered in pencil "58/100" on the lower left margins.
The work is from "The Bible" series and was printed by Raymond Haasen, Paris in 1958 in a limited edition of 100 hand coloured impressions.
It is the 8th plate in the series of 105 images that Chagall created for his important series published by Tériade, Paris.

Literature:
1. Cramer, Patrick. Marc Chagall, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné.
Reference: Cramer 30
2. Marc Chagall and Ambroise Vollard: Complete Catalogue of Etchings by Marc Chagall commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, ed. Charles Sorlier.
Reference: Vollard 206

Condition: Good Condition. Paper mildly discoloured.