Full set of twelve complete sheets of postage stamps, depicting Chagall’s Tribes of Israel series of stained-glass windows, created for the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem.
AUCTION 76 |
Thursday, June 14th,
2018 at 3:00 PM
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art
Lot 351
CHAGALL, MARC
Full set of twelve complete sheets of postage stamps, depicting Chagall’s Tribes of Israel series of stained-glass windows, created for the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem.
-1973:
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,500
Following their exhibition in Paris and New York, Chagall’s celebrated Jerusalem Windows were permanently installed in February, 1962. In 1973 the State of Israel issued a series of fine commemorative postage stamps.