M. Chagall, Ulysses before Nausicaa from Odyssey

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Marc chagall (after)

ulysse devant nausicaa
(ulysses before nausicaa)
from "odyssey"

colour lithograph on paper
publisher: daco verlag, stuttgart
year: … Read more Marc chagall (after)

ulysse devant nausicaa
(ulysses before nausicaa)
from "odyssey"

colour lithograph on paper
publisher: daco verlag, stuttgart
year: 1989
size: 377 x 577 mm
edition number: 288

excellent condition: complete image (no crop, no trim), fold in the centre as issued, wonderful colours

with gallery certificate

catalogue raisonné:
meret meyer and patrick cramer, "marc chagall, les livres illustrés", ref. # 96
charles sorlier and fernand mourlot, chagall lithographe, vol. V, ref. # 767
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chagall and the odyssey

“when chagall approaches the subject of greece he approaches it in the same way as life. He does not come to it as still life, but as to a living flesh of dream and memory” (robert marteau, quoted in: mourlot, vol. V, p. 74)

chagall’s illustrations reveal his acute sense of narrative detail and his ability to evoke the atmosphere of the mediterranean, saturated in myth and sunlight. In the words of the poet robert marteau:

"for chagall, the gods are not dead\.he tell's us that man's earth is not abandoned, that it is not an insignificant sphere roaming in the vastness of creation, but rather that it participates in that infinite grace which is diffused everywhere".

(quotes by robert marteau from "charles sorlier and fernand mourlot, chagall lithographe, vol. V, p. 74 and p. 92)
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. The listing is for the original lithograph as listed
. The colophon with the edition number is shown for reference
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