BOLDLY SIGNED IN RED CRAYON BY MARC CHAGALL

CHAGALL, Marc. Due momenti dell'Opera Grafica di Chagall. Milan: Galleria Ciranna, 1967. Oblong octavo, original stiff wrappers. $850.

First edition, boldly signed on the title page in red crayon by Marc Chagall with his last name.

The catalogue of an exhibit at the Galleria Ciranna in Milan in 1967 featuring 100 etchings of Chagall's illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine and ten lithographs from the series "Sur la terre de Dieu." With illustrated cover and 110 photographic illustrations of all the items in the exhibition. Text in Italian. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and close friend of Chagall. Liverant and Chagall both fled Europe in World War II, Liverant to Canada and Chagall to the United States. After the war, both acquired residences in Provence, where shared social circles, similar ages, and a mutual love of Yiddish combined to forge a lasting bond of friendship between the two.

"Chagall" written in ink on spine, otherwise in fine condition.