The result was one of Chagall’s greatest triumphs. One of his most innovative ideas was to replace the dark and gloomy ceiling of the Paris Opera with modern artist Marc Chagall’s ebullient and colorful painting-with Chagall’s work thematically connected to ballet and opera.
The mid-century French Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux, was obsessed with changing the aesthetic face of Paris and heralding in a new cultural era for the city. The work concerns that amazing work done by Chagall for the ceiling of the Paris Opera House. Folio (10 by 13-1/2 inches), original pictorial red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition in English of this work about the transformation of the ceiling of the Paris Opera House, with original frontispiece lithograph, six chromolithographs, and numerous black-and-white engravings after sketches, drawings, and paintings by Chagall, as well as a large folding “final study” of the ceiling (with black-and-white and color on opposite sides) in rear pocket.
New York, Washington, London: Frederic A. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE CEILING OF THE PARIS OPERA, WITH ORIGINAL FRONTISPIECE CHROMOLITHOGRAPH, SIX ADDITIONAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS, NUMEROUS BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS AFTER ARTWORK BY MARC CHAGALL, AND A FOLDING CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC “FINAL STUDY”
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