MARC CHAGALL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 09/28/1962 - HFSID 74722

MARC CHAGALL
Marc Chagall wrote this letter to Madame O. Lazar-Vernet in Paris, France in 1962. In it, he apologizing for his late reply to one of her letters and writes about "your corrections for printing".
Typed letter signed "Marc/Chagall" in blue ink.With pencil notations in upper right corner in unknown hand. 1 page, 8¼x10½, on stationery from his home in Les Collines, Vence, France. Sept. 28, 1962. Addressed to Madame O. Lazar-Vernet, Paris, France. In French, translated: "Madame, I did indeed receive your letter of 2 August. My apologies for having been late in replying but I was on vacation. I will return to Paris in a short while and I will see Aragon for the engraving. Also I have received your corrections for printing. I am going to study it and will speak to you in Paris about this matter. With my best salutations,". Chagall's best-known work from 1962 is a series of 12 stained glass windows, representing the 12 tribes of Jersusalem, that he designed for the Synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. These windows were dedicated on Feb. 6, 1962. He also published 12 lithographs, based on the final designs for the windows and made by longtime collaborator Charles Sorlier, in a 1962 book about their creation. Chagall (1887-1985, born Mark Zakharovich Shagal in Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire, now Belarus)considered one of the most original and eminent figures in 20th century art, is particularly well-known for his stained glass windows. Best known for the Jerusalem Windows and Peace for the United Nations (1964), his last monumental work in the medium was stained glass windows for chapel of Le Saillant in Corrèze. In 1914, Chagall (1887-1985, born Moishe Shagal in Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire, now in Belarus) first exhibited two of his works, Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers and The Fiddler, at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. In June of that year, he had his first one-man show at the Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. Chagall then traveled to Vitebsk, his hometown, intending to stay for a short visit, but the outbreak of WWI prevented him from returning to Paris, where he would later settle. Chagall created his first stained glass windows (for the church of Le Plateau d'Assy in Haute-Savoie) in 1957. Chagall was influenced by Cubism, Fauvism and Surrealism. His works, executed in a wide variety of media, from oils to stained glass, often featured subjects drawn from Russian village life, Jewish folklore and Hasidic mysticism. Lightly toned, foxed and creased. Light tears at top edge. Light nicks at bottom edge. Folded in quarters and unfolded. Light tears in folds along left, right and bottom edges. Otherwise in fine condition.