[1962]. · Monte Carlo
by Chagall, Marc, and Jean Leymarie [text & notes]
Monte Carlo: André Sauret, [1962].. 210,[4]pp. Small folio (33 x 26 cm). Cloth. Plates, photographs. Fine in dust jacket with tiny nicks toward lower fore-tip. Card slipcase. First English language edition, translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. Illustrated with two full-page original color lithographs executed by Chagall for this work and printed by Mourlot, as well as 36 multi- color preparatory color designs transferred to stones under Chagall's supervision and printed by Charles Sorlier. The text was printed at the Imprimerie Nationale. A splendid overview of the various stages of Chagall's twelve stained glass window designs for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem. (Inventory #: WRCLIT79349)