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CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985, artist), Meyer SCHAPIRO and Jean WAHL. Illustrations for the Bible [ Verve VIII, nos. 33/34]. Utrecht: A.W. Bruna & Zoon, 1956. 2° (354 x 262mm). Colour-printed lithographic title and 16 plates, and 12 lithographic plates on 30 sheets by and after Chagall printed by Mourlot Fréres, 105 heliogravure plates after Chagall on 53 sheets printed by Draeger Fréres. Original publisher's boards with a colour-printed lithograph by and after Chagall.
CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985, artist), Meyer SCHAPIRO and Jean WAHL. Illustrations for the Bible [ Verve VIII, nos. 33/34]. Utrecht: A.W. Bruna & Zoon, 1956. 2° (354 x 262mm). Colour-printed lithographic title and 16 plates, and 12 lithographic plates on 30 sheets by and after Chagall printed by Mourlot Fréres, 105 heliogravure plates after Chagall on 53 sheets printed by Draeger Fréres. Original publisher's boards with a colour-printed lithograph by and after Chagall. FIRST EDITION, Utrecht issue. Illustrations pour la Bible was a special double issue of the periodical Verve dedicated to Chagall's illustrations for his Bible (Paris: 1956, 295 copies), and reproduced the 105 etched illustrations in heliogravure. Although Chagall's Bible was begun in 1931, it was only finished 25 years later, when it swiftly established itself as 'one of the very few major Bible illustrations of the 20th century' (Garvey The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 , 53). The edition consisted of 6,500 copies. Cain The Lithographs of Marc Chagall 117-146; Cramer Chagall the Illustrated Books 25 (Paris issue); Schauwers Bibliothèque de Madame Louis Solvay 863 (Paris issue).