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Box 2

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

Association des Amis du Musee National Message Biblique Marc Chagall: correspondence and documents

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with the association, as well as documents related to their meetings.

Dates: 1859-2005; Majority of material found in 1920s-1970s

Levy, Rudolph. Life and Work. Related papers and correspondence, 1991

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Receipt for purchase of book on Levy; correspondence with Levy scholar; gallery booklet on Levy exhibit; and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1991

Chagall, Marc. Sobakevich at Table. Auction acquisition papers, 1992-11-22

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of correspondece, financial records, and related material documenting Gerhard and Marianne's art collecting. The bulk of the series documents their acquisitions of works by Marc Chagall.

Dates: 1992-11-22

Sister Anna, by Marc Chagall. Shipping/Lending documents, 1984

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

The work was lent for the George Pompidou Center's Exposition "Dessins de Chagall."

Dates: 1984

Chagall's "Dead Souls" series etching plates. Auction purchase documents, 1982 - 1992

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Auction purchase papers for Marc Chagall's Drypoint and Etching Plate 44 from "Dead Souls" (based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol) signed in plate and signed in pencil. Edition 285: "Pliushkin offers a drink"; and Receipt for purchase of plate 76 of the same: "The Porter Refuses Chichikov Entrance to the Governor's House.

Dates: 1982 - 1992

Chagall, Marc. Albert Lasard. Purchase papers and correspondence, 1985 - 1995

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of correspondece, financial records, and related material documenting Gerhard and Marianne's art collecting. The bulk of the series documents their acquisitions of works by Marc Chagall.

Dates: 1985 - 1995

Chagall, Marc. Lithograph no. 281. Purchase papers and correspondence, 1994

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

There is little information on what the lithograph is, other than its numerical designation. The correspondence concerns its late arrival from the gallery.

Dates: 1994

Chagall, Marc. Man with Cat on a Roof. Purchase papers and restoration correspondence, 1985

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

In addition to the contents described in the title of this record, there is also an obituary of Wilhelm F. Arntz, an art collector from Germany.

Dates: 1985

Der Sturm. The Drinker, by Chagall. Purchase and reprint documents, 1990 - 1999

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

In 1990, Gerhard ordered a reprint of an issue (no. 6, 1914) of the art and culture journal "Der Sturm" featuring on its cover a drawing by Chagall--"The Drinker." In 1999, he purchased the issue through a rare journal collector. The correspondence, information and receipts for both transactions are included.

Dates: 1990 - 1999

Verve and "Derriere le Miroir" issues featuring Chagall (receipt and correspondence), 2000

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

This is a single receipt for the purchase of two French journal issues: Derriere le Miroir, no. 235 (1979), which features Chagall ("Chagall vu par Vercors"); and Verve, no. 24 (1950), which features an article on Chagall's illustrations of Bocaccio's Decameron from the Duke de Bourgnon manuscript.

Dates: 2000