97 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s Jerusalem Windows, Boldly Inscribed By Chagall, With Two Original Color Lithographs 126. CHAGALL, Marc. Vitraux pour Jerusalem. Monte Carlo, 1962. Folio, original raw gray silk, photographic endpapers, dust jacket, acetate. $7500. First French edition of Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows, boldly inscribed by Chagall and dated “1965, Vence,” with two original full-color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition and with numerous beautiful color lithographic reproductions of the artist’s work. From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish émigré and friend of Chagall. Illustrated are various drafts as well as the final versions of the 12 stained glass windows (one for each of the tribes of Israel) and designed by Chagall for the synagogue of the HadassahHebrew University Medical Center. Issued the same year as the very similar English-language edition titled Jerusalem Windows. Text in French, From the collection of Joseph Liverant, a fellow Russian Jewish emigré and close friend of Chagall. Liverant and Chagall both fled Europe in World War II, Liverant to Canada and Chagall to the United States. After the war, both acquired residences in Provence, where shared social circles, similar ages, and a mutual love of Yiddish combined to forge a lasting bond of friendship between the two. Fine condition. “I don't know where [Marc Chagall] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.”— Picasso
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