Marc Chagall (Vitebsk 1887 - 1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence). ”L"Horloge - Le Pendule”. 1956
Colour aquatint and etching on BFK Rives wove paper. 31,2 × 23,3 cm (56 × 38,1 cm) (12 ¼ × 9 ⅛ in. (22 × 15 in.)). Signed.
Maeght 1202.-
One of 300 numbered copies. Paris, Galerie Maeght, 1956. Executed after the painting "La pendola" of 1948. [3606]
Condition report: No. 287/300. Harmonious overall appearance. The colours fresh and strong. The sheet edges in places with small handling creases. At the upper edge in the centre a closed tear (0,5 cm) and at the lower edge in the centre one minuscule loss (0,1 x 0,2 cm). The paper unevenly pale time stained and isolated with small pale foxing. The paper surface around the plate mark with slight scuff marks, and mainly at the lower edge slightly soiled. In the motif towards the upper and lower plate mark edge left of centre each a minuscule, hardly noticible nail hole. In the upper corners remnants of transparent liquid glue of an old mount. On the reverse primarily outside of the motif some foxing. Along the edges paper tape remnants of a former mounting.