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Spaightwood Galleries
Marc Chagall: The Image of the Artist
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Like Rembrandt, Kathe Kollwitz, and Picasso, Chagall is particularly fond of presenting an image of himself as artist in his art. His first print cycle included a group of etchings for his autobiography, Mein Leben (My Life), written and published in Berlin in 1922 after Chagall returned to western Europe after having been traped in Russia first by the First World War and then by the Communist Revoltion. Since then, he has included representations of himself in his art and representations of artists at their art with great frequency, portraying himself as an idealized figure, as a rooster, as a painter at his easel, as a half human-half animal (half goat-half-cow-half horse), as an artist in love, and in various other ways. Chagall's self-representations offer us a chance to see how the symbols that occur and recur in this images help us to understand many of his other works as well.
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The house in my village (M. 283). Original color lithograph, 1960. 100 numbered impressions + c. 2000 unsigned impressions for Chagall Lithographe I. There were also 40 signed and numbered impressions reserved for the artist. Chagall has here redrawn one of his earliest etchings for Mein Leben / My Life (1922). Image size: 325x250mm. Price: $975.
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Self Portrait: Ma Vie (M. 282). Original color lithograph, 1960. 100 numbered impressions + c. 2000 unsigned impressions for Chagall Lithographe I. There were also 40 signed and numbered impressions reserved for the artist. Illustrated in the 1988 Moscow Chagall Exhibition. Image size: 325x250mm. Price: $1,350.
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Après l'Hiver / After the Winter (M. 651). Original color lithograph, 1972. 75 signed & numbered impressions + 5000 unsigned impressions. With the coming of spring, the world suddenly bursts into bloom, and the artists looks upon his world of flowers, fishes, cows, women, and the village in which all are to be seen. Image size: 320x440mm. Price: $1,725.
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The painter and his double (M. 992). Original color lithograph, 1981. 15,000 unsigned impressions. This lithograph is partially reproduced on the cover of Chagall Lithographe V. Ours is an unsigned impression as taken from the deluxe art review, Derrière le Miroir. One of Chagall's most beautiful and important late lithographs. Image size: 300x410mm. Price: $1250.
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The artist inspired (M. 398). Original color lithograph, 1963. 40 signed & numbered + c. 2000 unsigned impressions for Chagall Lithographe Volume II. Illustrated in the 1988 Moscow Chagall Exhibition. Image size: 320x240mm. Price: $1,075.
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Devant Saint-Jeannet (M. 646). Original color lithograph, 1972. 50 signed & numbered impressions + 10 000 unsigned impressions for Ceramiques et Sculptures de Chagall. One of the most beautiful of Chagall's later lithographs, it features a rooster-headed artist painting a portrait of a pair of lovers, with the man portrayed with the horse's head (ass's head from A Midsummer Night's Dream?) so often featured in Chagall's works. Image size: 310x235mm. Price: $1,075.
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L'artiste II (M. 929). Original color lithograph, 1978. 50 signed & numbered impressions, of which this is n. 11/50. This work has just come back from restoration. It is a beautiful image in very good condition. Image size: 330x250mm. Price: $15,000.
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Double self-portrait at the circus (M. 577a). Original color lithograph, 1968. Edition: Some unfolded proofs + 10,000 unsigned impressions for Chagall Lithographs Volume III. Ours is an impression of the front cover with a complimentary signature by Chagall. One of a series of double portraits (almost all of which are idealized self-portraits), the work presents the artist as focused on the Equestrienne and on his palette simultaneously. Image size: 325x250mm. Price: SOLD.
Unsigned impression available for $875.
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Double self-portrait I (M. 729a). Original color lithograph, 1974. Some unfolded proofs + 10,000 impressions signed in the stone for Chagall Lithographe Volume IV. Chagall then added additional colors and a rather extensive background scene, complete with lovers, a village, and a floating mother and child. This was published in an edition of 50 as The blue village. Image size: 325x250mm. Price: $875.
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Double self-portrait II (M. 729b). Original color lithograph, 1974. Some unfolded proofs + 10,000 unsigned impressions in the stone for Chagall Lithographe Volume IV. Image size: 325x250mm. Price: $875.
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The blue profile (M. 476, Sorlier, p. 53), Original color lithograph, 1967. Edition: 150 signed and numbered impressions before letters plus 2000 unsigned impressions with poster text as ours. Unobtrusive handling creases. Image size: 730x485mm. Price: SOLD.
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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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