Marc Chagall and his Four Tales from the Arabian Nights were awarded the graphic prize of the Venice Biennial in 1948, and are considered the finest examples in this medium produced in the United States prior to 1950. The numbered and signed edition of 90 was published as a suite containing 12 of the 13 color lithographs by Kurt Wolf of Pantheon Books, New York in 1948. (A rare suite of these same works containing a 13th lithograph was published in an edition of 21, 10 of which were numbered I to X in Roman numerals and 11 such suites were lettered A to K.) The printer was Albert Carman, City Island, New York.