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Le coq et les deux visages

Lot 25
05.06.2023 18:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerVAN HAM Kunstauktionen GmbH
Event locationGermany, Köln
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Lot 25 | Le coq et les deux visages
Estimate value
€ 250 000 – 350 000
CHAGALL, MARC
1887 Vitebsk - 1985 St. Paul de Vence

Title: Le coq et les deux visages.
Date: 1956.
Technique: Ink and gouache on Japan paper.
Measurement: 100 x 61,5cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Marc Chagall 1956.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame. Not examined out of the frame.


Enclosed with this work is a certificate from the Comité Marc Chagall, Jean Louis Prat, Paris, dated 13 October 1994.

Provenance:
- Private collection Switzerland
- Koller Zurich, auction 16 June 1994, lot 3053
- Private collection Germany
- Koller Zurich, auction 06 December 2013, lot 3240
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthalle Bern, 1956

- Characteristic work by the "painter-poet" in monumental size and with high recognition value
- Combines iconic motifs such as a couple, a cockerel and a bouquet of flowers in delicate yet expressive colours
- From a time of new creative energy in the artist's work after the marriage to his second wife Valentina "Vava" Brodsky in 1952
- His fantastic dream worlds make Marc Chagall a unique artist who continues to celebrate success decades after his death.
Auction house category:Post War
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