AN ORIGINAL FULL PAGE COLOR ILLUSTRATION AND INSCRIPTION BY CHAGALL
Chagall, Marc. Chagall ou l’orange Enchante. Geneve / Paris: Editions des Trois Collines 1948. With a full page original drawing and inscription by Chagall. With 8 color plates tipped in and numerous black and white photographic plates and illustrations, many of which are full page. Publisher’s original green illustrated dust wrapper.
The title contains a full page artwork by Chagall done in pink, yelllow and green crayon. This lovely illustration pictures a person looking up at an angel, with a cresent moon above. The angel’s wings, hair and the moon have been colored in. Incorpporated within the drawing is an inscription in blue pen reading ” Brandeis Univ./ 1960. Pour Sam and Helen Slosberg/ souvenir/ Marc Chagall”
In publishers full green illustrated dust jacket wrapper. Jacket illustrated in black ink. Uncut and partially unopened. A beautiful copy with a classic Chagall original drawing and wonderful provenance.
In January 1960, Chagall assumed his post at Brandeis as the first ever artist-in-reidence.
Samuel L. Slosberg was an executive with the Green Shoe Manufacturing Company of Boston, co-founded by his father, Jacob. Green Shoe was the maker of the Stride Rite brand of shoes. Sam Slosberg became chairman after the death of his father. He died in 1982. Helen Slosberg, who studied painting at the Museum Of Fine Arts, was an active patron of the arts and founder of the Brookline Chamber Music Society and founder of the Cambridge Society for Early Music. She died in 1985.
As benfacters of the arts, Chagall, the Brandeis artist-in-residence, presented the Slosbergs this beautiful token of his appreciation.
