Chagall, Marc - 1964 - Commissariat Général au Tourisme France (Paris - l'Opéra - le plafond de Chagall / Roméo et Juliette)

Chagall, Marc
born 1887 in USSR - Witebsk, died 1984 in F - St. Paul

poster for the Opera in Paris
edited by Commissariat Général au Tourisme France
motive: detail from the ceiling painting of the opera in Paris with Roméo et Juliette and the presentation of the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe

1964
original design
colour lithograph
64 cm x 99 cm
printer: Mourlot
edition of 5000 copies
unused copy without traces of use, original nice and strong colours, nearly mint condition
(see additional pictures)


order no. 10441





catalogue raisonné:

Mourlot, Fernand, Chagall Lithograph, 6 Bde., Monte Carlo 1960-1986, V/CS 10

Sorlier, Charles, Les Affiches de Marc Chagall, Paris 1975, 97 (dt. Ausgabe Genf 1976, 105), with a detailed description about the origin of the ceiling painting which was controversial in its time, and the lithograph poster

Maier-Preusker, Wolfgang, Marc Chagall - Begleitkatalog zur Ausstellung der lithographischen Künstlerplakate und Varianten, Bonn 1995, Nr.33