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Hardcover. Zustand: G. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Red cloth boards. 1st revised edition. 119 pages. Pages suitable for framing. Light marks on the outer edges, Red boards have mild marks and rubbing. Includes 12 stained glass windows in color plus black and white pictures and explanatatory text . Translated from the French.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 88pp. 27.5cm. 31 colour plates. Bibliography. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy. The illustrations date from 1879-80 to 1900 and include many of Tahiti.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Marc Chagall (illustrator). First Revised Edition. xix, [1], 111, [11] pages. Note on fep. Includes Introduction, as well as the dimensions of the preparatory drawings, The Stained-Glass Windows, and the Details. Some scuffing and wear to cover and corners. Minor spine weakness at third color plate, restrengthened with glue. Each of the twelve stained-glass windows reproduced is preceded by a preparatory set of drawings and models, whose number, media, dimension, and order of presentation are exactly the same in the sequence of each Tribe and are arranged as follows: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------Height Width First sketch, pencil pen and India ink.7-7/8'' X 5-7/8'', Preparatory drawing, India ink and wash.15-7/7-8" X 11 -5/8" First color skitch, India ink and watercolor.7-7/8'' X 5-7/8", Small model, gouache and collage.8-5/8'' X 18-7/8" Final model, gouache and collage.16-1/2'' X 12-1/2" Marc Chagall[a] (born Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov;[7] 6 July 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall 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"). For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. He had two basic reputations: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." In 1960, he began creating stained glass windows for the synagogue of Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Leymarie writes that "in order to illuminate the synagogue both spiritually and physically", it was decided that the twelve windows, representing the twelve tribes of Israel, were to be filled with stained glass. Chagall envisaged the synagogue as "a crown offered to the Jewish Queen", and the windows as "jewels of translucent fire", she writes. Chagall then devoted the next two years to the task, and upon completion in 1961 the windows were exhibited in Paris and then the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They were installed permanently in Jerusalem in February 1962. Each of the twelve windows is approximately 11 feet high and 8 feet (2.4 m) wide, much larger than anything he had done before. Cogniat considers them to be "his greatest work in the field of stained glass". In 1973 Israel released a 12-stamp set with images of the stained-glass windows. The windows symbolize the twelve tribes of Israel who were blessed by Jacob and Moses in the verses which conclude Genesis and Deuteronomy. In those books, notes Leymarie, "The dying Moses repeated Jacob's solemn act and, in a somewhat different order, also blessed the twelve tribes of Israel who were about to enter the land of Canaan. In the synagogue, where the windows are distributed in the same way, the tribes form a symbolic guard of honor around the tabernacle." Leymarie describes the physical and spiritual significance of the windows: The essence of the Jerusalem Windows lies in color, in Chagall's magical ability to animate material and transform it into light. Words do not have the power to describ.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 210, [1]. profusely illus. (most colour). cloth. dw.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Second Edition. First Printing. Publisher's full gray cloth, white and black lettering on spine and cover, red, yellow, and blue decoration on cover. Profusely illustrated with 82 tipped-in color plates. Introduction by Herbert Read. Includes Biographical and Bibliographical Notices and an Index of Pictures reproduced or mentioned. Includes works by Bazille, Bonnard, Cezanne, Courbet, Cross, Degas, Ensor, Gauguin, Jongkind, Manet, Munch, Pissaro, Redon, Renoir, Roussel, Serusier, Seurat, Signac, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utamaro, Vallotton, Van Gogh, and Vuillard. . Slight wear at head and heel, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. All of the tipped-in plates are fresh, clean, and bright. A large, heavy book (six pounds) - additional shipping charges may apply. NEAR FINE. The History of Modern Painting Series. Vol. 1. Color Plates. Folio 13" - 23" tall. xxii, 151 pp.

Hardcover. First English Language Edition. Quarto, 210 pages. In Very Good minus condition and lacking issued dust jacket. Bound in light gray cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. Foxing to cloth. General shelf wear. Foxing to edges of textblock and to endpapers. Minor tearing and staining to title page. Includes two original lithographs created especially for this book. DL Consignment. Shelved in Case 11. 1395684. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. First English Language Edition. Quarto, 210 pages. In Very Good minus condition, with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Mild shelf wear to boards, including rubbing to cloth and age-toning to text block, light foxing to top; occasional age-toning to margins of interior pages, artwork unaffected; signed by previous owner to front free endpaper; includes two original lithographs created especially for this book on pages 4 and 9. Dust jacket protected by a mylar covering; black spine with yellow lettering. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket, including chipping with material loss to margins and corners; small closed tear to top margin of front cover; price uncut: "$35". Shelved in Case 11. 1395875. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition of this work by the famed artist. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jerusalem Windows illustrates and chronicles the creation of twelve stained glass windows, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, designed by Chagall for the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Synagogue in Jerusalem.

First edition. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contains the rarely seen original slipcase, also present is the original blue ribbon. The rear panel of the acetate shows some wear. Jerusalem Windows illustrates and chronicles the creation of twelve stained glass windows, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, designed by Chagall for the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Synagogue in Jerusalem.

First English language edition. Small folio (33 x 26 cm), 210, [4 pp. Cloth. Color plates and photographs. Fine in dust jacket with tiny nicks along the lower edge and two short closed tears on the rear panel. Translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. Illustrated with two full-page original color lithographs executed by Chagall for this work and printed by Mourlot, as well as 36 multi-color preparatory color designs transferred to stones under Chagall's supervision and printed by Charles Sorlier. The text was printed at the Imprimerie Nationale. A splendid overview of the various stages of Chagall's twelve stained glass window designs for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First English Language Edition. First Printing. Folio (33.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; publisher's dustjacket and original acetate overlay; publisher's slipcase; [10],11-210,[6]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $35), showing some trivial wear at the crown; acetate overlay is a bit wavy, else Near Fine; gentle sunning to slipcase extremities, else very Near Fine. Pre-eminent modern artist Marc Chagall was nearly 70 when he began working on his first major stained glass projects, during the mid-to-late 1950's. In 1959, he was commissioned to create a set of stained glass windows for Abbell Synagogue at the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. Upon completion, the Jerusalem Windows enjoyed two short exhibitions in Paris and New York before their permanent installation in the synagogue, in 1962. These twelve masterpieces in stained glass, each representing one of the twelve tribes of Israel, are showcased in this lush folio, which also includes two original lithographs Chagall created exclusively for this publication. Readers may observe the development of the windows through a procession of preparatory sketches in pencil, ink, and watercolor; the final models are represented on full page color plates (36 total). Additional commentary by Jean Leymarie explains the religious significance of each subject, as well as Chagall's artistic intentions. An additional chapter details the assembly of the windows themselves, and the book concludes with a selection of sketches and paintings related to the project.