This beautiful and iconic composition, Chagall L' ange au chandelier (Angel with Candlestick), 1973, was chosen to represent the National Museum of the Biblical Message. Taken from the right-hand section of an original work by Marc Chagall titled Jacob’s Dream, Charles Sorlier created a print edition especially for the opening of the Museum in 1973.

This work’s highly recognizable biblical imagery was perfectly suited for this occasion featuring a beautiful angel who is lit from within, holding a candelabra that creates a warm, soft halo around her. Chagall's immense talent with color allows for the light to the candles to truly appear realistic, shedding dim light on the angel. The entire composition is almost bathed in a deep, lapis-lazuli blue, with small pastoral figures scattered throughout the landscape below evoking a sense of warmth and peace from within.

Created in 1973, this color lithograph was created before the poster edition marking the inauguration of the Musée National Message Biblique. Hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin and numbered from the edition of 200 in pencil in the lower left margin, this work was published by Editions des Amis du Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Marc Chagall Angel with Candlestick (L'ange au chandelier), 1973 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).

1. Sorlier, Charles. Chagall Lithographs, Vol. V 1974-79. New York: Crown Publishers, 1984. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. CS 46 on pg. 242.

2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this work.

About the Framing:
Marc Chagall Angel with Candlestick (L'ange au chandelier), 1973 is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas