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Jacques Lassaigne and Marc ChagallBiblio.com

Drawings and Water Colors for The Ballet

1969réf. 4415Tudor Publising 1969. Hardback. Good. Drawings and Water Colors for The Ballet by Jacques Lassaigne & Marc Chagall Tudor Publishing ISBN: none Condition: Good Sold by Crappy Old Books This isn’t just a book—it’s a ticket to a stage where colors pirouette donkeys leap en pointe and fiddlers in improbable shades of green hover above the orchestra pit. In Drawings and Water Colors for The Ballet 1969 art critic Jacques Lassaigne plays master of ceremonies while Marc Chagall unleashes his arsenal of soaring dancers dream-flecked costumes and watercolor backdrops that seem to glow even when the book is closed. It’s a strange duet: Lassaigne provides the words steady and scholarly while Chagall responds in visual crescendos—inky sketches washes of crimson and cobalt ethereal ballerinas who look suspiciously like saints or circus performers who’ve taken a wrong turn into Swan Lake. You won’t learn how to do a plié but you might find yourself halfway convinced that roosters can waltz and angels definitely prefer a pas de deux. Why this copy is worth pirouetting over: Published in 1969 by Tudor Publishing when stagecraft psychedelia and surrealism were all cross-pollinating. Features the unlikely pairing of critic Lassaigne and painter Chagall which is a bit like having someone explain the trapeze while you’re already flying through the air. Condition: Good. Like an old playbill it’s been to the show maybe had a rose pressed inside but still flutters with magic. No ISBN because Chagall’s imagination couldn’t be catalogued by a mere number. At Crappy Old Books we like to think of this as the only coffee-table volume that might spontaneously leap into a grand jeté if you don’t keep a paperweight on it. It’s beautiful it’s odd it’s lyrical—and it may inspire you to redecorate your living room in cerulean goats and floating fiddlers. Tudor Publising hardcover

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CHAGALL Marc SENGHOR Leopold SedarBiblio.com

Elegie des Alizes

1969réf. 1203961969. First Edition. Signed. SENGHOR Lopold Sdar. lgie des Alizs. Lithographie Originale de Marc Chagall. Paris: ditions du Seuil 1969. Slim quarto five loose gatherings in original cream paper wrappers uncut and unopened original glassine. $2800.Limited first edition number 405 of only 450 copies of Senghor's lgie des Alizs Elegy for the Trade Winds with an original full-page three-color lithograph by Chagall signed and dated by him in 1974 on the title page. From the collection of Joseph Liverant a fellow Russian Jewish emigr and friend of Chagall.Internationally recognized poet politician and cultural theorist who served as the first president of Senegal Lopold Sdar Senghor avoided the Marxist and anti-Western ideology that had become popular in post-colonial Africa choosing instead to form a close relationship with France and the Western world. He was instrumental in the cultivation of postcolonial aesthetics and black African consciousness. His poetry reflects an ""all-embracing humanism which envisions the solidarity of all men with each nation making its contribution in its own special way to a 'universal civilization"" Albert S. Gerard. Critics continually point to his ability to synthesize elements of Western and African experience and to evoke universality in the imagery of his verse. ""Senghor is not merely a Frenchified African who tries to give exotic interest to his French poems; he is an African who uses the French language to express his African soul"" Ulli Beier. Chagall's wonderful illustration was printed by Fernand Mourlot who ran a lithography press in Paris where such greats as Braque Matisse Picasso Mir Lger and of course Chagall came to have their designs printed and to learn about this still nascent medium. Text in French. Cramer 82. Sorlier 587. From the collection of Joseph Liverant a fellow Russian Jewish emigr and close friend of Chagall. Liverant and Chagall both fled Europe in World War II Liverant to Canada and Chagall to the United States. After the war both acquired residences in Provence where shared social circles similar ages and a mutual love of Yiddish combined to forge a lasting bond of friendship between the two.A bit of wear two small ink marks to rear panel of fragile original glassine; wrappers and interior fine. unknown