Marc Chagall - Die Felsengrotte der Nymphen - image-1

Lot 264 D

Marc Chagall - Die Felsengrotte der Nymphen

Auction 1043 - overview Cologne
28.11.2014, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 18.000 € - 22.000 €
Result: 14.880 € (incl. premium)

Marc Chagall

Die Felsengrotte der Nymphen
1961

Colour lithograph on wove paper with watermark "ARCHES" 42.2 x 64.1 cm (53.7 x 75.5 cm) Framed under glass. Signed and numbered. Proof 43/60 from the signed separate edition. Published in the portfolio Longus, Daphnis & Chloé, in a total edition of 270 copies. Sheet 14 of the suite. Printed by Mourlot Frères, published by Tériade Editeur, Paris 1961. - Browned and somewhat light-stained in the mat opening. Colours partly faded.

The series "Daphnis und Chloé" can be considered the most impressive display of Chagall's graphic talent in his entire oeuvre. The artist illustrated the ancient Greek romantic novel, which was presumably written in the 3rd century on the island of Lesbos and was also highly influential for Baroque pastoral poetry, in a series of 42 colour lithographs. The "Felsengrotte der Nymphen" is one of the 16 large format sheets and among the most splendid in the series.

Catalogue Raisonné

Mourlot 321; Cramer Books 46