La Fille

Chagall, Marc

184618 Chagall, Marc La Fille (The Daughter) from the Fables of Fontaine 1927-1930 C.22, C.S.168 11 1/2'' x 9 1/4'' Black and white etching on on Montval laid paper signed in the plate. From the book edition of 200 (total edition), in two volumes. Of the 200 copies, 85 included the 100 original etchings, with text, numbered 1 to 85 and were signed on the frontispiece (of which this image is one). These 85 copies each included a suite of the 100 etchings on Rives wove with hand-coloring (40 contained additional suites of 100 on Japon Nacre and Montval while 45 copies contained an additional suite of 100 on Montval only). Aside from the edition of 100 original black and white etchings on Rives wove (without any additional suites) and 15 hors commerce examples reserved for assistants, numbered from I to XV in Roman numerals. An additional 100 copies of the 100 original black and white etchings on Montval paper of a format of 34 x 42 cm, numbered 1 to 100, with all plates of these albums signed by the artist also exists. The loose edition of the Fables of the Fountain was conceived by Ambroise Vollard, and Marc Chagall was asked to do the illustrations in 1927. The artist engraved the plates from 1927 to 1930. The circulation of original etchings of the plates was executed under the direction of Ambroise Vollard by Maurice Potin. This original circulation of the book edition with text was resumed by Teriade in 1950, edited by Verve, and were produced in two volumes, engraved by the artist in 1952 and pulled by Raymond Haasen. The text edition was composed in bold Italics 24 and engraved in Garamont in the 16th century composition and the impressions were executed under the supervision of Georges Arnoult. The circulation was finished on the presses of the National Printing Press of France in March 1952 by Raymond Blanchot, acting director. There were 243 fables originally written in French by the poet Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695) in the late 1600's. He spent 26 years writing his versions of the fables. Most of these are originals from La Fontaine and those that are not are often quite different and more eloquent than other Aesop's fables of the same title. When the original idea was conceived by Ambrose Vollard who asked Chagall to do the illustrations in 1927, Vollard's commission to Chagall, a Russian, caused an uproar in France. It even went before the French Parliament where Vollard explained that he needed an oriental (eastern) influence in the fables. In the end, Vollard's instinct proved infallible.

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184618

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11 1/2" x 9 1/4"

Medium

ETCHING

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