Marc Chagall.

SCHMIED, Wieland; [Marc Chagall].

$1,250.00

Item Number: 146245

Salzburg: Galerie Welz, 1976.

First edition of this collection of work by a major artist of early modernism, with introduction by Weiland Schmied. Duodecimo, original pictorial boards, frontispiece self-portrait of Marc Chagall, illustrated with penciled and painted drawings. Boldly signed by Marc Chagall on the title page. In near fine condition.

Marc Chagall was an early modernist Belarusian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to him as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists." For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist."