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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

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ID 1076480
Lot 26 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Bacchanale

signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower left)

gouache, brush and pen and India ink on paper

19 5⁄8 x 25 3⁄8 in. (49.8 x 64.5 cm.)

Executed in 1964





Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris, by 1964.

Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris, by 1980.

Galerie Tamenaga, Tokyo.

Private collection, circa 1980.

Hayakawa Gallery, Osaka, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2007, lot 220.

Opera Gallery, Monaco, by 2007.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009.



Literature

M. Arland, Derrière Le Miroir: Marc Chagall, no. 147, Paris, June 1964, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated n.p.).

LMS News, no. 44, France, December 2010 - February 2011, p. 108 (illustrated).

I. Söhnge, 'Kaiser Hadrian trifft Yves Klein', in Riviera-Côte d’Azur Zeitung, Nice, March 2011, p. 5 (illustrated).

'Pieces of the Classical Past', in Minerva: The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, vol. 22, no. 3, London, May - June 2011, p. 52 (illustrated fig. 5).

'A Mougins, un musée d'art classique pas comme les autres', in Exponaute, 13 July 2011 (illustrated; accessed 2023).

M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, no. 15, pp. 315-316 (illustrated p. 316).

M. Merrony, ed., Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, La Collection Famille Levett, Mougins, 2012, p. 81 (illustrated; titled 'Bacchanales').

'À la croisée des regards', in Côte Magazine, Geneva, September 2012, p. 125 (illustrated in situ).

V. Bougault, 'L'Antiquité au goût du jour', in Connaissance des arts, no. 706, Paris, July - August 2012, p. 115 (illustrated in situ).

L. Spak, 'Chris Levett, Un homme heureux', in Côte Magazine, Geneva, October - November 2013, p. 25 (illustrated in situ).

M. von Joel, 'From Here to Antiquity, One Man’s Remarkable Journey from Southend to Imperial Rome', in State, Hot and Cool Art, no. 15, London, September - October 2014, p. 22 (detail illustrated in situ; illustrated again n.p.).

Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, August 2014, p. 114 (illustrated in situ).

Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, September 2014, p. 120 (illustrated in situ).

'Expositions', in Grand Sud, no. 77, Nice, Autumn 2014, p. 88 (illustrated in situ).

'Museum to go', in Riviera Zeit, no. 299, Villeneuve-Loubet, January - February 2017, p. 23 (illustrated in situ).

L. Marotta, 'The Medici of Mougins', in Force One, no. 15, Monaco, 4 April 2017, p. 38 (illustrated in situ).

SO Cannes, Aix-en-Provence, Summer 2017, p. 115 (illustrated in situ).

'Le MACM rayonne à l'international', in Mougins, June 2017, p. 43 (illustrated in situ; illustrated in situ again n.p.).

'L'art est dans l'air', in Grand Sud, no. 92, Nice, October - November 2017, p. 84 (illustrated in situ).

Ancient Warfare, vol. XIII, no. 6, Rotterdam, June - July 2020, n.p. (illustrated in situ).

Ancient History, no. 28, Rotterdam, June - July 2020, n.p. (illustrated in situ).

R. Leung, 'From 4th-Century Greek Vases to Female Abstract Expressionism', in Larry's List, 2022 (illustrated in situ; accessed 2023).



Exhibited

Nice, Musée National Marc Chagall, Sur la Terre des Dieux: Marc Chagall et le Monde Grec, November 2019 - September 2020 (no cat.).

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA82MA).



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