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Remarkable NEW delivered but still wrapped 2019 Chagall La Fontaine Les Fables, French edition of the most beloved color lithos …
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Remarkable NEW delivered but still wrapped 2019 Chagall La Fontaine Les Fables, French edition of the most beloved color lithos created by Marc Chagall in the 20th Century when he was living in Paris.
Wonderful gift for holidays, art lovers, scholars, historians and even a new baby celebration - or a special gift for your own enjoyment!.
(note - French edition is boxed like a slipcase)
Please note on Chairish item # 15151289 there is an English translation illustrated by David Schorr.
French Edition:
Publisher : HAZAN (October 16, 2019)
Language : French
Paperback : 220 pages
ISBN-10 : 2754111190
ISBN-13 : 978-2754111195
Item Weight : 2.82 pounds
Dimensions : 7.36 x 1.57 x 9.25 inches
UNSPSC-Code : 55101500 (Printed publications) Report an incorrect code
Best Sellers Rank: #3,797,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Customer Reviews: 4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
(French translation below this)
“One of my most tenacious ambitions as a publisher had been to publish La Fontaine’s Fables, properly illustrated. It was the Russian painter Marc Chagall that I asked for the illustration of the book. We did not understand this choice of a Russian painter to interpret the most French of our poets. Now it is precisely because of the fabulist's oriental sources that I had thought of an artist to whom his origins and his culture made this prestigious Orient familiar. My hopes were not disappointed: Chagall produced a hundred dazzling gouaches.”
So remembers Ambroise Vollard, the famous art dealer who, in 1926, entrusted Marc Chagall with this project. The artist produced around a hundred color gouaches to prepare for the black and white engraving work, drawing inspiration from his Russian culture and the richness of French landscapes. Much more than an editorial project, this commission is for Marc Chagall a passport to France, which inscribes and roots him in the footsteps of French artists and writers. While creating the gouaches, his wife Bella read the Fables aloud to him, speaking to his imagination and his inspiration. The death of Ambroise Vollard in 1939 interrupted the publication of the work, which did not appear until 1952, at the initiative of Tériade.
This box set celebrates this dialogue between two exceptional artists, La Fontaine, on the one hand, today the best-known French poet of the 17th century, dazzling stylist and moralist of human nature; and Marc Chagall, on the other hand, who delivers his dreamlike and personal vision of the Fables, nourished by the snowy landscapes of Vitebsk and by an animism inherited from the Hasidic traditions of Eastern Europe, punctuated by the colors and atmospheres of the Brittany, Auvergne and the south of France.
Produced in collaboration with the Marc Chagall Committee, this box set pays homage to this original artistic encounter, through around sixty magnificent gouaches, accompanied for the first time by their engravings. It is supplemented by an explanatory booklet which relates the genesis and meaning of this dialogue between the two artists.
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« Une de mes plus tenaces ambitions d’éditeur avait été de publier les Fables de La Fontaine dignement illustrées. C’est au peintre russe Marc Chagall que je demandai l’illustration du livre. On ne comprit pas ce choix d’un peintre russe pour interpréter le plus français de nos poètes. Or c’est précisément en raison des sources orientales du fabuliste, que j’avais songé à un artiste à qui ses origines et sa culture rendaient familier ce prestigieux Orient. Mes espérances ne furent pas déçues : Chagall fit une centaine de gouaches éblouissantes ».
Ainsi se souvient Ambroise Vollard, le célèbre marchand d’art qui, en 1926, confie à Marc Chagall ce projet. L’artiste réalise une centaine de gouaches en couleurs pour préparer le travail de gravure en noir et blanc, s’inspirant de sa culture russe et de la richesse des paysages français. Bien plus qu’un projet éditorial, cette commande est pour Marc Chagall un passeport vers la France, qui l’inscrit et l’enracine dans les pas des artistes et des écrivains français. Pendant la création des gouaches, sa femme Bella lui lit à haute voix les Fables, parlant à son imaginaire et à son inspiration. Le décès d’Ambroise Vollard en 1939 interrompt la publication de l’ouvrage, qui ne paraîtra qu’en 1952, à l’initiative de Tériade.
Ce coffret célèbre ce dialogue entre deux artistes exceptionnels, La Fontaine, d’une part, aujourd’hui le plus connu des poètes français du xviie siècle, styliste éblouissant et moraliste de la nature humaine ; et Marc Chagall, d’autre part, qui livre sa vision onirique et personnelle des Fables, nourrie par les paysages enneigés de Vitebsk et par un animisme hérité des traditions hassidiques d’Europe de l’Est, ponctuée des couleurs et des atmosphères de la Bretagne, de l’Auvergne et du midi de la France.
Réalisé en collaboration avec le Comité Marc Chagall, ce coffret rend hommage à cette rencontre artistique originale, à travers une soixantaine de gouaches magnifiques, accompagnées pour la première fois de leurs gravures. Il est complété d’un livret explicatif qui relate la genèse et le sens de ce dialogue entre les deux artistes.
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- Dimensions
- 7.36ʺW × 1.57ʺD × 9.25ʺH
- Styles
- French
- Illustration
- Artist
- Marc Chagall
- Period
- 2010s
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- Perfect as for a floor sample - the French edition is still in its original plastic shrink-wrap Perfect as for a floor sample - the French edition is still in its original plastic shrink-wrap less
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