1971 Chagall at the "Met"

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this large work exploring Chagall's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with descriptive text and analysis by Emily Genauer, American art critic for the New York World, the New York Herald Tribune, and Newsday, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1974.

A striking book fully illustrated in text in colour with reproductions of the work of Marc Chagall and various sketches, with focus on his piece 'The Magic Flute.' 

Marc Chagall was an early modernist artist, known for his work including a range of paintings, drawings, stained glass, tapestry, and fine art prints. He was known as a pioneer modernist and major Jewish artist in the twentieth century.