SIGNED BY MARC CHAGALL

CHAGALL, Marc. Monotypes en Noir et en Couleurs. 1961-1963. Geneva: Galerie Gérard Cramer, 1958. Octavo, original stiff wrappers. $800.

Limited first edition of this illustrated catalogue, number 237 of 1200 copies, signed by Marc Chagall on the frontispiece illustration. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and friend of Chagall.

The catalogue from an exhibition at Galerie Gérard Cramer in Geneva of the works of Chagall and other artists, illustrated throughout in black and white. 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.

Minor wear to extremities. Near-fine condition.