Lithograph poster printed in colors on Arches wove paper with the printed inscriptions: "D'APRES MARC CHAGALL - CH SORLIER GRAV." lower left, "Commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the List Art Poster Program of the American Federation of Arts" lower center, "Printed in France by Mourlot, Paris" lower right. Measures 39 x 25 inches (99 x 63.5 cm). A bright and fresh example from the edition of 3000, still presenting very well though with a number of small surface abrasions and fully backed to foamcore. Set in a cream colored mat. 

Commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the Vera List Art Poster program for the American Federation of the Arts, this is a superb impression, created for the opening of George Bizet's opera Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera House.  Transcribed by Charles Sorlier from Chagall’s maquette for “The Triumph of Music” (Chagall’s mural which is still on exhibit at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York) published by Editions of the Metropolitan Opera, New York; printed at Atelier Mourlot, Paris, bearing its credit line on the stone lower right.

Literature: See Charles A. Riley II, Art at Lincoln Center, p. 129; Mourlot CS39; Chagall’s Posters Catalogue Raisonné p. 108.