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Marc Chagall: La Fontaine: Fables: 100 acquaforti originali dipinte a mano dall'artista presentate dalla Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco
No full textThis is a beautiful catalogue. After a page of commentary on this unusual set of art works, there are thirty-six colored reproductions of individual works among the hundred that Chagall did for the project. The hundred are listed in fact by French title on the last page. It is my understanding that the set was up for sale one by one by the Libreria Pregliasco in conjunction with the Galleria Accademia in Turin--for 1,450,000 Lire each. My favorites as I look at these beautiful illustrations this time through include The Eagle and the Beetle (17), SS (19), CW (25), FG (35), The Shepherd and the Sea (41), MM (75), The Cobbler and the Financier (79), and The Shepherd with His Animals (including a squealing pig, 92). This is one of those surprise finds as I combed through seemingly endless lists of Alibris books available.Language note: ItalianRetold by Jane Yole
Marc Chagall: Sculpture, Ceramics, Etchings for the Fables of La Fontaine.
No full textThis pamphlet-catalogue begins with Anecdote and Fantasy by Chagall. After a section on Chagall's ceramics, there are three pages on The Fables of La Fontaine, including five black-and-white photographs and Marianne Moore's translation of FC. Gaston Bachelard inverts the common dictum about La Fontaine-he tells what he has seen-into his dictum for Chagall: He sees what people tell him or, better, what one was about to tell him. For Bachelard, Chagall surprises the dominant moment of the story. Chagall catches the cobbler Grégoire in his final supergaiety, brought by deliverance.Gaston Bachelar
Marc Chagall: My Life--My Dream
No full textAt last I have found a full presentation of Chagall's Fables cycle, at least in black-and-white. Excellent coverage of fables here in four parts of this fine work: biographical essay (20-24), plates (#55-71, and 75-85 odd numbers), catalogue (203-5) and small plates (236-50). The book covers each of the cycles from this period of Chagall, the foremost exponent of etching in this century. My favorites among the eight colored reproductions are of the transformed cat (Pl 58), the drunkard and his wife (60), the satyr and the wanderer (grand prize, 64), and the bear and the schemers (70). This beautiful book was first done as an exhibit catalogue for a show in Ludwigshafen.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)This book has a dust jacket (book cover)Original language: gerSusan Compto
Marc Chagall: Die 100 Radierungen zu den Fabeln von La Fontaine.
No full textI first learned of this publication by seeing it in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I tried to purchase it subsequently through Schoenhof's in Cambridge. They came back with the answer that it was not for sale because of copyright considerations, so I asked if they could give me the name of someone at the Rupertinum. I wrote and asked about the possibility of an exchange. Six weeks later this lovely edition appeared in my mail! It is hard to reproduce the liveliness of Chagall's originals, I think. I was much more stunned by the vivacity of the originals in the V & A than I am by these reproductions. But until I can find and finance an original set, this is a wonderful second-best! Some of my favorites on this trip through have been FG (XXXV), 2P (LIII), Die Alte und die beiden Mägde (LVI), Der Löwe und der Jäger (LXV), and Die junge Witwe (LXXII). I can find no indication whose German translation of La Fontaine is used here. This book represents a real catch for the collection!Language note: GermanOtto Breich
Marc Chagall: Les Fables de La Fontaine
No full textSome routine follow-up revealed that there is also a hard-bound version of this book, which I have had for some time in paperback form. In fact, the paperback was a second edition from 1995, the year of publication, while this third edition is from 2004. As I wrote of the paperback, here is a beautiful 144-page catalogue prepared for the great showing of the forty-three located gouaches done by Marc Chagall. See, under 1997, my comments on Marc Chagall: The Fables of La Fontaine. Those comments give something of the history of these gouaches and mention this exhibit. Now I have found the book published to catalogue the exhibit. The reproductions of Chagall's work here are exquisite! Each is paired with and faces its La Fontaine text. There is a T of C of the gouaches on 142. At the front of the book, following a short preface by Joséphine Matamoros and Sylvie Forestier, are two essays: Les gouaches de Chagall pour les Fables jugées par la critique des années 1920-30 and Chagall illustrateur des Fables de La Fontaine ou Comment quitter la Russie et devenir français. The exhibits were held at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Céret from October 28, 1995 until January 8, 1996 and at the Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice from January 13 until March 25, 1996.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchThird edition revue et corrigéeJean de La Fontain
Marc Chagall: Les Fables de La Fontaine
No full textHere is a beautiful 144-page second edition of the catalogue prepared for the great showing of the forty-three located gouaches done by Marc Chagall. See, under 1997, my comments on Marc Chagall: The Fables of La Fontaine. Those comments give something of the history of these gouaches and mention this exhibit. Now I have found the paperback published to catalogue the exhibit. The reproductions of Chagall's work here are exquisite! Each is paired with and faces its La Fontaine text. There is a T of C of the gouaches on 142. At the front of the book, following a short preface by Joséphine Matamoros and Sylvie Forestier, are two essays: Les gouaches de Chagall pour les Fables jugées par la critique des années 1920-30 and Chagall illustrateur des Fables de La Fontaine ou Comment quitter la Russie et devenir français. The exhibits were held at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Céret from October 28, 1995 until January 8, 1996 and at the Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice from January 13 until March 25, 1996.Language note: FrenchSecond editionSelected and illustrated by Michael Hagu
Marc Chagall: The Fables of La Fontaine
No full textThis is one of the most delightful and beautiful books I have found! Three things impress me particularly about the book. First, it helps to clear up the difficult history of Chagall's involvement with La Fontaine's fables. In 1995, two French museums--the Musée d'Art Moderne de Céret and the Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice--jointly mounted a show displaying the forty-three available gouaches of the one hundred which Chagall created in 1926-7. They were shown in three cities (Paris, Brussels, and Berlin) in 1930 and sold thereafter to a broad spectrum of collectors. Ambroise Vollard, who had commissioned the series, failed to publish the series in color, as he had planned to, and abandoned the project in 1928. Chagall then created plates from which to make engravings. In the late 40's and early 50's, Chagall set out to recover the hundred plates he had engraved in 1929-30. In 1952 André Tériade published them in two volumes. That edition came to obscure the gouaches themselves. Some thirty of the gouaches have never been heard of again since their purchase in Berlin in 1930. Here we get the forty-three gouaches shown in the 1995 exhibit. Second, the editor has fun with the presentation of Elizur Wright's good translation of La Fontaine, curving and bending it around on the left (text) side of each two-page opening. Only MSA (110-13) violates this rule; it uses four pages. A particular tour de force offers the text as a tree on 66! Thirdly and best of all, these illustrations are just spectacular! Some of my favorites among them are: SS (45), The Old Woman and Her Two Servants (89), The Satyr and the Traveller (91), The Rat and the Elephant (97), The Lion and the Gnat (103), The Raven Wishing to Imitate the Eagle (117), and The Bear and the Amateur Gardener (123). In an introductory essay, Didier Schulmann points out that Chagall often chooses not to depict small creatures. In The Two Bulls and the Frogs (53), the frogs are not even pictured. The Cat Metamorphosed Into a Woman (57) continues to haunt me; Schulmann says of it: In a single case, the illustration shifts away from the meaning of the fable…nothing in La Fontaine's text indicates the state of profound nostalgia in which Chagall's hybrid, pensively seated with her elbows on a small table, seems to be plunged (30). At the end there is an alphabetical list tracking the gouaches to their last known site.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Original language: freBoxedApparent first printingJean de La Fontaine. Translated by Elizur Wright. Josephine Matamoros and Sylvie Forestier. Translated by Esther Allen
Four Seasons
No full textDetail viewMarc Chagall's mosaic occupies a section of the First National Plaza at Dearborn and Monroe Streets. It's size and shape (70 feet long by 14 feet high by 10 feet wide) have earned it the nickname of 'the boxcar mosaic'. The design which wraps around all four sides of the rectangle was a gift to the city by the artist and the actual construction of it was privately funded. The colorful glass and stone used to construct it came from Italy, France, Norway, Belgium, and Israel. Chagall was present when the mosaic was dedicated on September 27, 1974
Martin Lawrence Limited Editions
No full textHere are, nicely presented, the 102 illustrations from Chagall's 1952 Les Fables de La Fontaine, published by Ambroise Vollard. There are two title-pages, one for each volume. Most of these black-and-white reproductions are about 3 x 3¾ and arranged four to a page. A few are larger, including the full-page title-pages (7 and 22); WL (8); SS (13); The Wolf, the Goat, and the Kid (20); The Young Widow (28); The Dog Who Carried His Master's Dinner (31); and The Shepherd and His Sheep (32). Other portions of the book cover The Psalms of David; Maternity; The Odyssey; maquettes of stained glass windows for Jerusalem; the exodus; Nice and the Cote d'Azur; and various Chagall paintings. The last five sections of these eight sections are in full color. The cover represents The Preparation for the Candidate's Feast from The Odyssey. This is a lovely book!Language note: EnglishJean de La Fontain
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