Artist: Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Tittle: Hommage to Maïakovski 1963
Medium: Original Lithograph, Limited Edition of 500
Dimensions: 26 x 19.5 in, 66 x 49.5 cm

Printed at the Atelier Mourlot in 1963, this original lithograph was printed to commemorate the life of writer Vladimir Maïakovski with a poetic evening dedicated to his writings on what would be his 70th birthday. Maïakovski passed away in 1930 and was a dear friend of Marc Chagall.

Galerie Filali is pleased to collaborate with our personal friend Galerie Mourlot, New York, to present a collection of rare lithographs from legendary Parisian printing house Atelier Mourlot. Founded in Paris in 1852, Atelier Mourlot has been synonymous with fine art lithography for over 150 years. From 1930, under the direction of the founder’s grandson, Fernand Mourlot, leading artists were invited to the studio to collaborate on traditional limestone lithography. For painters like Chagall, the medium provided an exciting new form of expression.

Each individual work of art comes with a Certificate of Provenance, signed, dated, stamped, and numbered by Eric Mourlot. Stored in a clear protective sleeve accompanying your piece, this Certificate of Provenance is recognized by all the major auction houses should you care to resell at any point. This ensures the validity of its origin and its being in the Mourlot archives since its production.

“His unconventional world was a brightly colored melange of animals, flowers, people, embracing lovers, birds and fish playing musical instruments, nymphs, satyrs, winged female figures, Jewish and Christian symbols, vignettes of clustered roofs and violins with angel’s wings. These objects rarely if ever bore their natural hues; cows were likely to be blue, horses green, people red.”

— NY TIMES

“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it—a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art.”

— MARC CHAGALL