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Marc Chagall — Then he spent the night with her embracing and clipping...: plate 3, from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights: nine plates (M. 38, see C. bks 18)
Marc Chagall

Then he spent the night with her embracing and clipping...: plate 3, from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights: nine plates (M. 38, see C. bks 18)

Marc Chagall's plate 3 from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights series features a narrative scene rendered in progressive color lithograph proofs. The work comes contained in original wove paper and represents Chagall's imaginative interpretation of Arabian tales.

Medium
Nine lithographs, progressive color plate proofs, in colors, on Utopian laid paper, with full margins, all contained in the original wove paper with lithograph, folded (as issued).

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Marc Chagall, Then he spent the night with her embracing and clipping...: plate 3, from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights: nine plates (M. 38, see C. bks 18)

Marc Chagall's plate 3 from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights series features a narrative scene rendered in progressive color lithograph proofs. The work comes contained in original wove paper and represents Chagall's imaginative interpretation of Arabian tales.

Medium
Nine lithographs, progressive color plate proofs, in colors, on Utopian laid paper, with full margins, all contained in the original wove paper with lithograph, folded (as issued).
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Figural, Arabian, Modernism, Whimsical, Narrative, Colorful, Mid-Century, Lithograph, Russian, Romantic

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Art Institute of Chicago