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Marc Chagall

Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) (Nine Works)

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Lot closes

April 9, 01:23 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 EUR

Starting Bid

7,000 EUR

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Marc Chagall

1887 - 1985

Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) (Nine Works)

each signed in pencil (later) and inscribed épreuve d'artiste

nine etchings with drypoint on various papers

each sheet (approx.): 334 by 243 mm. 13⅛ by 9⅝ in.

Executed in 1925; these impressions are artist's proofs before the total edition of 300, printed by Louis Fort, published by Simon Kra, Paris, 1926.

(9 prints)

Kornfeld, n^o 47-50, 52-56.

Subjects include:

Plate 1, Frontispiz (Frontispiece)

Plate 2, Der Hochmut. I (Pride. I)

Plate 3, Der Hochmut. II (Pride. II)

Plate 4, Der Geiz. I (Avarice. I)

Plate 6, Die Wollust. I (Lust. I)

Plate 7, Die Wollust. II (Lust. II)

Plate 8, Die Begierde. I (Desire. I)

Plate 9, Die Begierde. II (Desire. II)

Plate 10, Die Völlerei. I (Gluttony. I)

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