BIBLE I (plate 1): “Création de l’homme”
Artist
Marc Chagall
(French, 1887–1985)
Date1956
MediumLithograph on Arches vellum
Dimensions12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Colonel Kenneth R. Bland
Object numberG.71.43.2/1
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ProvenanceCommissioned by Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris, 1930; plates created France, 1931–1939 and 1952–1956; printed by Maurice Potin and Raymond Haasen, Paris, 1956. Colonel Kenneth R. Bland (1923–1981), Arlington, VA; given to NCMA, 1971.
