Marc Chagall: The Jerusalem Windows

By Jean Leymarie
Translated from the original French text by Elaine Desautels

USED BOOK from private library. Good condition, tears on dust jacket, shelf wear on top edge, darkening on the edges.

Chagall's designs for the twelve stained glass windows of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Synagogue in Jerusalem, each window representing one of the twelve tribes of Israel. From Chagall's remarks on the morning of the dedication ceremony: "And this, which today is called sacred art, I carried out by thinking equally of the great ancient creations of the Semitic peoples of this region. And I hope that thus I am holding out a hand to friends of culture, to poets and artists of neighboring countries and of all countries."

Contains two original lithographs made for this book. 
104 plates, 64 in full color.
213 pages
© George Braziller, 1962