FIVE CHAGALL FOLIOS
Genauer, Emily, CHAGALL AT THE “MET,” New York: Metropolitan Opera Association Inc. and the Tudor Publishing Company, 1971. Original beige fabric with gilt imprint on folio-sized boards measuring 14″ x 10.5″ in dust jacket. Clean throughout. Minor tears to top and bottom of dust jacket. 52 full page color reproductions of designs March Chagall created to decorate the foyer of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, as well as his designs for the decor and the costumes of the Metropolitan Opera Company’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
[Also: Another copy, as above with no dust jacket, title page loose, mssing illustration opposite title page, otherwise complete. Very good for creating framed prints.]
HOMAGE TO CHAGALL, New York: Leon Amiel Publisher, 1982. Original blue hardback boards measuring 12.25″ x 9.75″.
Special issue of the XXe Siècle Review. Profously illustrated in color and b/w.
Leymarie, Jean, MARK CHAGALL: THE JERUSALEM WINDOWS, New York: Park Lane, 1988. First edition thus, translated from the French edition of 1962. Clean throughout in dust jacket. Reproductions with accompanying text and notes of the 12 stained glass windows created by Chagall for the synagogue of the Hadassah Hebrew University medical Center in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem window symbolized the 12 tribes of Israel who were blessed by Jacob and Moses in the celebrated lyric versus which conclude Genesis and Deuteronomy. Each of the 12 stained glass windows is preceded by a preparatory set of drawings and models.
Haftmann, Werner (Bauman, H. & Brown, A., trans.), MARK CHAGALL, New York: Harry and Abrams, Inc., 1972. First edition. Hardback folio measuring 13″ x 10″. 49 tipped-in color plates. One plate has come loose at the tip (see image), readily repaired with acid-free, archival library tape. Further illustrated profusely with black and white drawings.
