Marc Chagall’s rare etching in Vitebsk museum
In early July, a patron donated a rare graphic work created by the artist using the etching and drypoint technique to the Marc Chagall Museum. Chagall created a series of etchings to illustrate his memoir My Life, which he finished writing in 1922. In 1923, the portfolios were released in a limited edition of just 110 copies. Each print in the series was numbered. The first 26 sets were printed on Japanese vellum, a so-called buffalo paper. The Vitebsk museum collection includes another etching from this same series titled Grandmother and numbered 59. The new piece, The Talmud Teacher, is number 17. The Marc Chagall Museum in Vitebsk will exhibit the etching after its professional restoration.
Pictured: Irina Voronova, director of the Marc Chagall Museum, holds The Talmud Teacher etching.
Photo by Aleksandr Khitrov
