Marc Chagall - Reference & Catalog Collection - 1951-1994

Volume 1 - The Theater of Dreams

• Title: Marc Chagall: The Theater of Dreams
• Author: Compiled by Cristina Cappa Legora (works by Marc Chagall)
• Publisher: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta (Milan)
• Year of publication: 1994
• Number of pages: 114 pages
• Description: A large-format monograph created for the retrospective at Palazzo Reale di Milano. It explores the close and poetic link between Chagall's painting and the world of staging, opera, ballet, and avant-garde theater.

Volume 2 - Two Moments of Chagall's Graphic Opera

• Title: Two Moments of Chagall's Graphic Opera
• Subtitle: 100 Etchings for La Fontaine's Fables - 10 Lithographs from the series «Sur la terre de Dieu»
• Author: Introduction and texts by Domenico Cara (works by Marc Chagall)
• Publisher: Galleria Ciranna (Milan)
• Year of publication: 1967
• Number of pages: About 40 pages
• Description: A rare-era catalog published on the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday. Documents the original prints accurately and the two famous engraving cycles by the master exhibited at the Milan gallery.

Volume 3 - Marc Chagall

• Title: Marc Chagall
• Author: Commissioner of the exhibition and texts by Christina Burrus
• Publisher: Fondation Pierre Gianadda (Martigny, Switzerland)
• Year of publication: 1991
• Number of pages: 260 pages
• Description: Impressive monographic volume and scientific catalog in French for the international Swiss retrospective. It collects and analyzes masterpieces from private collections and museums around the world.

Volume 4 - Illustrations to Longus' Daphnis and Chloe

• Title: Marc Chagall: Illustrations to Longus' Daphnis and Chloe
• Author: Sotheby's London
• Publisher: Sotheby's (London)
• Year of publication: 1990
• Number of pages: About 60 pages (unpaginated)
• Description: Monographic auction catalog of extraordinary historical importance produced for the sale of lots containing the original graphic masterpieces Chagall drew to illustrate the Greco-Roman pastoral novel Dafni and Chloe.

Volume 5 - 100 Etchings for La Fontaine's Fables

• Title: Marc Chagall: 100 Etchings for La Fontaine's Fables
• Author: With note and preface by Guido Perocco
• Publisher: Graphis Arte (Livorno) / Toninelli Arte Moderna (Milan)
• Year of publication: About 1974
• Number of pages: About 32 pages
• Description: Exhibition catalog published in Italy to present the complete folder of the historic engravings commissioned from Chagall by the legendary art dealer Ambroise Vollard.

Volume 6 - Marc Chagall: The Russian Years 1908-1922

• Title: Marc Chagall: The Russian Years 1908-1922
• Authors: Texts by Lionello Venturi and Nicoletta Misler; entries by Sylvie Forestier
• Publisher: Artificio Edizioni (Florence)
• Year of publication: 1992
• Number of pages: 119 pages
• Description: In-depth monograph focused entirely on the artist's early production, examining the works and influences from the years spent in Vitebsk, Saint Petersburg, and Moscow prior to his definitive move to Western Europe.

Volume 7 - Marc Chagall: My Life

• Title: Marc Chagall: My Life
• Subtitle: with drawings by the author
• Author: Marc Chagall
• Publisher: Artificio Edizioni (Florence)
• Year of publication: 1992
• Number of pages: 150 pages
• Description: Italian edition of the famous and poetic autobiography written by the artist in the early 1920s. The text, intimate and rich with childhood memories, is accompanied by splendid full-page line drawings created by Chagall himself.

Volume 8 - Chagall

• Title: Chagall
• Author: Curators of the Kunsthalle Bern
• Publisher: Kunsthalle Bern
• Year of publication: 1951
• Number of pages: About 48 pages
• Description: Very rare-era softcover catalog of the historic Bern exhibition held in February and March 1951. A collectible item of great interest as evidence of one of the first major postwar European exhibitions dedicated to the painter.

Volume 9 - Homage to Marc Chagall

• Title: Homage to Marc Chagall
• Author: Monographic gallery-critical texts
• Publisher: Printed in Italy (with auction house stamps and cataloging marks from Finarte)
• Year of publication: About 1970 - 1975
• Number of pages: About 36 pages
• Description: Vintage art catalog printed in square format to present a representative survey of graphic works and paintings by the master. The cover features the famous greeting graphic "Bonne année Marc Chagall 1959"