Bella Chagall
Lumières allumées
Paris et Genève, Édition des Trois Collines, April 15, 1948.
1 vol. (165 x 225 mm) of 227 and (3) p. In wrappers, illustrated flap cover.
First French translation.
One of 150 hors commerce copies on vellum (no. 20).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Jacques [Lassaigne], en souvenir de Bella, en toute affection, Ida [Chagall].”
Marc Chagall enhanced with watercolor his drawing printed as frontispiece, with this inscription: “Pour Jacques Lassaigne, Marc Chagall.”
One of 150 hors commerce copies on vellum (no. 20).
Signed presentation inscription: “Pour Jacques [Lassaigne], en souvenir de Bella, en toute affection, Ida [Chagall].”
Marc Chagall enhanced with watercolor his drawing printed as frontispiece, with this inscription: “Pour Jacques Lassaigne, Marc Chagall.”
Ida Chagall was the daughter of Marc Chagall; she translated this book, which her mother had written from 1939 onward in her native Russian. Bella Rosenfeld Chagall was arrested in Marseille in 1941, but managed to escape to the United States, where she died of a viral infection in September 1944. It was Marc Chagall who entrusted the manuscript to his daughter Ida, so that she might publish it. The painter added to it Première rencontre, also written in Yiddish in 1935.
A fine copy of exceptional provenance: Jacques Lassaigne was one of the foremost specialists on Chagall, author of Dessins inédits (1968) and Dessins pour le ballet (1969), and above all of a Chagall published by Maeght in 1957, with 15 lithographs by the artist.
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