Charles Marq of the Atelier Simon in Reims. France, arrived in Jerusalem to dismantle the 12 stained glass windows Marc Chagall created for Hadassah. Mr. Marq’s arrival over the weekend was revealed today by Mrs. Mortimer Jacobson, President of Hadassah, who said that the windows constitute “one of the world’s great art treasures and they must be protected in this time of crisis.”
The windows, depicting the 12 tribes of Israel, have been housed in the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in the Judean Hills since 1962. They were installed following exhibition in Paris and New York. The windows were originally assembled at the Atelier Simon, where Marc Chagall proceeded to paint, etch and scratch each pane of glass.
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