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Who commissioned Marc Chagall’s illustrations for Nikolay Gogol’s Dead Souls?

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The Paris art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard commissioned Marc Chagall to create the etchings for the special edition of Nikolay Gogol’s novel Dead Souls in 1923.1