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Marc Chagall — Fables of la Fontaine: Four plates (See Cramer Bks 22)
Marc Chagall

Fables of la Fontaine: Four plates (See Cramer Bks 22)

An illustrated series by Marc Chagall based on La Fontaine's Fables, consisting of four plates. The work combines narrative illustration with Chagall's imaginative and whimsical artistic sensibility.

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Marc Chagall, Fables of la Fontaine: Four plates (See Cramer Bks 22)

An illustrated series by Marc Chagall based on La Fontaine's Fables, consisting of four plates. The work combines narrative illustration with Chagall's imaginative and whimsical artistic sensibility.

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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

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Surrealism, Fantasy, Literary Adaptation, Fables, Russian-French, Modernism, Literature, Marc Chagall, Whimsical, Illustration, Narrative, Graphic, Modern, Colorful, Lithograph, La Fontaine, Figurative, Russian

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Art Institute of Chicago