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Marc Chagall
Quelle vie, quel plaisir sans la blonde Aphrodite?... (What is life, what is pleasure without the blonde Aphrodite?...), from Sur la terre des Dieux (The Land of the Gods)
- Estimate
- $10,000 - 15,000
$12,500
Lot Details
Lithograph in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins,
1967
I. 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (50.2 x 40 cm)
S. 25 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (64.1 x 50.2 cm)
S. 25 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (64.1 x 50.2 cm)
signed and numbered 67/75 in pencil (there were also 25 artist's proofs and an edition of 20 in Roman numerals on Japanese paper), published by A.C. Mazo, Paris, framed.
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Quelle vie, quels plaisirs sans la blonde Aphrodite? Ah! Que je meure
quand ne me toucheront plus ces douces choses, présents de miel, couche
amoureuse — ravissantes fleurs de la jeunesse…! -Mimnerme
(What is life, what
is pleasure without the blonde Aphrodite? Ah ! I will die without being touched by these sweet things, the
present moment of honey, love making — ravishing flowers of youth…! – Mimnermus)
quand ne me toucheront plus ces douces choses, présents de miel, couche
amoureuse — ravissantes fleurs de la jeunesse…! -Mimnerme
(What is life, what
is pleasure without the blonde Aphrodite? Ah ! I will die without being touched by these sweet things, the
present moment of honey, love making — ravishing flowers of youth…! – Mimnermus)
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