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Spaightwood Galleries
Marc Chagall: Lithographs for the Bible (1960), page 2
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After the success of their 1956 collaboration on a portfolio of color lithographs to commemorate the publication of Chagall's long delayed set of etchings for the Bible, Antoine Teriade and Chagall agreed to devote another issue of Verve to another set of illustrations illuminating Chagall's Bible. Meyer Shapiro has called Chagall one of the greatest religious artists of all time, and these lithographs show why: powerful drawing, intense colors, and, most of all, compassion for the characters.
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Cain and Abel (M. 238). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve(of which ours is one). Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1,575.
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Sara and Abimelech (M. 239). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve(of which ours is one). Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1800.
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Sarah and the angels (M. 240). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve(of which ours is one). Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1800.
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Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert (M. 241). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve (of which ours is one). Sarah thrust Abraham on Hagar when she believed that she was unable to give him an heir; as soon as Sarah gave birth to Isaac, she demanded that Abraham put Hagar away. Hagar and Ishmael were dying in the desert when the Lord sent an angel to rescue them. Herman Melville's Moby Dick begins with the command, "Call me Ishmael," suggesting perhaps that we are lost in our own deserts until rescued by the angel of the Lord. Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1600.
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Rachel hides her father's household gods (M. 242). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve (of which ours is one). Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1600.
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Tamar, Judah's daughter-in-law (M. 243). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve (of which ours is one). Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1600.
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Rahab sheltering Joshusa's spies in Jericho (M. 244). Original color lithograph, 1960. 50 signed and numbered impressions plus 6500 unsigned impressions for Verve (of which ours is one). Image size: 356x253mm. Price: $1600.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 pm and other times by arrangement. Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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