Bouvard (Philippe) DuboutMareMagnum
Marc Chagall: The Ceiling of the Paris Opera; Sketches Drawings and Paintings
1966réf. 17971New York: Frederick A. Praeger 1966. Hardcover. First English-language edition first printing. Fine virtually as new cloth-bound hardcover in a Fine dust jacket with a tiny spot of soiling at the spine ends in the publisher's printed acetate dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear wrinkling and slightly shrunk. A very nice copy. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY WRAPPED IN PADDING IN A BOX. In 1963 Marc Chagall was commissioned to paint the new ceiling for the Paris Opera a majestic 19th-century building and national monument. This volume traces--step by step--Chagall's thinking from early sketches to finished masterpiece with sketches studies paintings photographs of the artist at work and photographs of the final canvas in situ. Includes the original color lithograph frontis as well as the 19- x 24-inch two-sided poster folded as issued laid in to a pocket attached to the rear paste down. Text by Jacques Lassaigne; b&w photographs by Izis Bidermanas; color photographs by Jean Dubout. 90 pages; 1 original color lithograph 6 color lithographs after Chagall color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.75 x 13.25 inches. Frederick A. Praeger hardcover
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