MARC CHAGALL 

Les vitraux de Jérusalem 

book with 4 full color lithos 

Musee des Arts Decoratifs 

Paris '61 

1st edition. 

RARE

Up for sale now the art book MARC CHAGALL Les vitraux de Jérusalem, 1st edition Paris 1961. This was published by Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillion de Marsan, Paris. Vintage 1961 item. The book is in hard to find NM+ condition and a.o. contains 4 full color lithos, all with unprinted (clean) back page. Others sell these lithos seperately, cut out of the book. On the cover a fifth litho is printed. 
Text in the book is in French. Text and black&white photographs illustrating Chagall's work in stained glass along with some color plates showing Chagall's windows.

In 1960, Chagall began creating stained glass windows for the synagogue of Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. A year later the results were presented in the Louvre. A year after that, in 1962, the windows were installed in Jerusalem.

The client had decided that the twelve windows of the synagogue, representing the twelve tribes of Israel, were to be filled with stained glass. Chagall envisaged the synagogue as a crown offered to the Jewish Queen, and the windows as jewels of translucent fire. Chagall then devoted two years to the task, and upon completion in 1961 the windows were exhibited in Paris and then the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They were installed permanently in Jerusalem in February 1962.  

At the dedication ceremony in 1962, Chagall said: “For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. Stained glass has to be serious and passionate. It is something elevating and exhilarating. It has to live through the perception of light.”

Publisher: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillion de Marsan, Paris, France
Year: 1961
Edition: First Edition.
Lithos: 4 full color in the book, all with unprinted (clean) back page
Cover: Card Wraps with a fifth litho print.
Pages: 88
Condition: NM+

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