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This etching with aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 300, at the lower left margin. This work was printed by Georges Visat in ca. 1956 and published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris in a limited edition of 300 signed and numbered impressions based on a painting from the 1950’s titled “L’horloge à Vitebsk” (until 2006 in the Estate of Marc Chagall)
The paper bears the BFK Rives watermark. It is stamped below the platemark “Grave par G. Visat” at the lower left corner.
Note: Franz Meyer stated of Chagall’s use of the wall clock in his works, “In 1914, after returning to his parents’ home, Chagall had painted the wall clock as a mysterious item in the inventory of the world of his childhood. In a small picture of 1930, in which a woman is lighting a candle, the big clock stands out against the white and ochre wall as a reference point for homely memories…What does the wall clock stand for? First, it is an item of the mysterious world of childhood, a great, strange presence in the parents’ sitting room filled with an incomprehensible life of its own. This makes it a being belonging to a different stage of reality…At the same time it announces the hour and so demarcates the diffuse stream that governs all human destiny.” (Meyer 379)
Literature: Derrière le Miroir No. 92-93: 10 Ans d’Edition – Maeght Editeur – 1946-1956, 1956, Maeght Editeur, Paris.
Reference: Maeght 1202
Condition: Excellent condition.
