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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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Prints & Multiples

April 7, 2022

Estimate: $1,000 – $1,500

Lot 36

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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

Related themes

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