CHAGALL, Marc.v 
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Cirque. Paris: Tériade Éditeur, 1967. ¶ Folio. Complete with 38 original lithographs, including 23 in colours on vélin d’Arches paper, 3 double page. Sheet sizes: 42.5 x 32.5 cm or 42.5 x 65 cm. Text in French. Original cream wrappers covered in glassine, lettering to front cover in black, sheets loose as issued. All housed in the original cream cloth chemise with slipcase, lettering to spine gilt and further housed in a dark blue flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. A couple of light marks to the slipcase, otherwise a fine copy. ¶ First edition, number 239 of 250 copies signed by the artist; a complete copy of one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the late 20th century. The spectacle of the circus was central to Chagall’s personal mythology. “A circus is disturbing. It is profound”, he wrote. “A timeless dancing game where tears and smiles, the play of arms and legs take the form of a great art” (quoted in Baal-Teshuva). Chagall first produced a suite of circus artworks at the behest of his publisher, Ambroise Vollard, himself a great aficionado of the circus. Vollard offered Chagall the use of his personal box at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris and Chagall was “childishly delighted” with the experience. “The distortions, the violations of normalcy, the clowns... the equilibrists, flying angels, pathetic monsters - all these creatures seemed to have crept out of Chagall’s pictures into the ring. They were naturally Chagallian” (Sidney, p. 292). The 19 gouaches produced for Vollard formed the basis of Cirque, a masterpiece of colour lithography with text written by Chagall, published by Efstratios Eleftheriades, one of Paris’s premier tastemakers. “These clowns, bareback riders and acrobats have themselves at home in my visions”, reminisced Chagall. “Why? Why am I so touched by their make-up and their grimaces? With them I can move toward new horizons. Lured by their colours and make-up, I can dream of painting new psychic distortions” (quoted in Baal-Teshuva). ¶ Cramer Books 68; Mourlot 490-527. Alexander Sidney, Marc Chagall: a Biography, 1978; J. Baal-Teshuva, ed., Chagall: A Retrospective, 1995.
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