Marc Chagall
MARITAIN, Raïssa
Marc Chagall
New York: Éditions de la Maison Française, Inc., 1943
8vo., cream card wraps lettered in black and red to upper cover; the remnants of the original webbed glassine laid in; pp. [viii], 9-63, [v]; with title page in red and black to match cover; red chapter heading and initial ‘C’, with one illustration direct to p. [viii], and another six full-page reproductions on glossy paper; a very good copy, the covers a little fragile, lightly browned and chipped to edges, a little loss to spine tips and the lower corners of covers; internally a touch toned but otherwise excellent, apparently unread with most pages entirely unopened.
First, limited edition, this copy no. 553 of 1500 copies on Midwood paper, with the original numbered slip loosely laid in. This copy additionally inscribed by Chagall to William Phillips in blue ink to p. [i]: “A M. William Phillips | bon souvenirs | Marc Chagall | N. J. 1944”
A nice association copy. William Phillips (1907 - 2002) was the co-founder and editor of Partisan Review, one of the key journals of left-wing thinking in the United States throughout the 1930s and '40s and a defining public intellectual in New York for decades after. Chagall had fled the Nazi occupation of France in 1941 for New York with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee, and this inscription is presumably a memorial of their meeting in 1944.
Raïssa Maritain was the wife of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, mentor to Pope Paul VI and influential figure in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was born to Jewish parents in Rostov-on-Don, and emigrated to France in the 1890s. She was to work again with Chagall on l'Orange Enchanté in 1948.
MARITAIN, Raïssa
Marc Chagall
New York: Éditions de la Maison Française, Inc., 1943
8vo., cream card wraps lettered in black and red to upper cover; the remnants of the original webbed glassine laid in; pp. [viii], 9-63, [v]; with title page in red and black to match cover; red chapter heading and initial ‘C’, with one illustration direct to p. [viii], and another six full-page reproductions on glossy paper; a very good copy, the covers a little fragile, lightly browned and chipped to edges, a little loss to spine tips and the lower corners of covers; internally a touch toned but otherwise excellent, apparently unread with most pages entirely unopened.
First, limited edition, this copy no. 553 of 1500 copies on Midwood paper, with the original numbered slip loosely laid in. This copy additionally inscribed by Chagall to William Phillips in blue ink to p. [i]: “A M. William Phillips | bon souvenirs | Marc Chagall | N. J. 1944”
A nice association copy. William Phillips (1907 - 2002) was the co-founder and editor of Partisan Review, one of the key journals of left-wing thinking in the United States throughout the 1930s and '40s and a defining public intellectual in New York for decades after. Chagall had fled the Nazi occupation of France in 1941 for New York with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee, and this inscription is presumably a memorial of their meeting in 1944.
Raïssa Maritain was the wife of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, mentor to Pope Paul VI and influential figure in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was born to Jewish parents in Rostov-on-Don, and emigrated to France in the 1890s. She was to work again with Chagall on l'Orange Enchanté in 1948.
MARITAIN, Raïssa
Marc Chagall
New York: Éditions de la Maison Française, Inc., 1943
8vo., cream card wraps lettered in black and red to upper cover; the remnants of the original webbed glassine laid in; pp. [viii], 9-63, [v]; with title page in red and black to match cover; red chapter heading and initial ‘C’, with one illustration direct to p. [viii], and another six full-page reproductions on glossy paper; a very good copy, the covers a little fragile, lightly browned and chipped to edges, a little loss to spine tips and the lower corners of covers; internally a touch toned but otherwise excellent, apparently unread with most pages entirely unopened.
First, limited edition, this copy no. 553 of 1500 copies on Midwood paper, with the original numbered slip loosely laid in. This copy additionally inscribed by Chagall to William Phillips in blue ink to p. [i]: “A M. William Phillips | bon souvenirs | Marc Chagall | N. J. 1944”
A nice association copy. William Phillips (1907 - 2002) was the co-founder and editor of Partisan Review, one of the key journals of left-wing thinking in the United States throughout the 1930s and '40s and a defining public intellectual in New York for decades after. Chagall had fled the Nazi occupation of France in 1941 for New York with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee, and this inscription is presumably a memorial of their meeting in 1944.
Raïssa Maritain was the wife of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, mentor to Pope Paul VI and influential figure in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She was born to Jewish parents in Rostov-on-Don, and emigrated to France in the 1890s. She was to work again with Chagall on l'Orange Enchanté in 1948.