Caïn et Abel (Cain and Abel)
Marc Chagall, Russian-French, born Belarus, 1887 - 1985
1958-1959; published 1960
Color lithograph on wove paper
6500
Sheet: 14 × 10 3/8 in. (35.6 × 26.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.965.102.2
Portfolio / Series Title
Dessins pour la Bible (Drawings for the Bible) for the Revue Verve
Printer
Atelier Mourlot Frères, Paris, France
Publisher
E. Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris
Geography
Place Made: Russia, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Reverse, printed, in black ink, center: [image of dove and crescent moon; original lithograph Mourlot n. 261]
Exhibition History
Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Figurative Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Color Intaglio Prints and Lithographs, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 10, 1991.
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1965.
Catalogue Raisonne
F. Mourlot, Boston, 1969, no. 238.and no. 261; Cramer 42
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