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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

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ID 1076519
Lot 22 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Moïse (gouache préparatoire pour la lithographie M. 126 (La Bible Ed. Verve))

stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)

gouache and pen and India ink on paper

14 ¼ x 10 ½ in. (36.1 x 26.7 cm.)

Executed in 1955-1956





Provenance

The artist's estate.

David McNeil [the artist's son], Paris, by descent from the above.

Private collection, Switzerland.

Anonymous sale, Grisebach, Berlin, 25 November 2005, lot 71.

Connaught Brown, London (no. 1712), by whom acquired at the above sale.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.



Literature

Tériade, ed., Bible: Marc Chagall, Verve, vol. VIII, nos. 33-34, Paris, 1956, pls. 32-33 (the lithograph included; titled 'Moïse reçoit les Tablets de la Loi').

F. Mourlot, The Lithographs of Chagall, vol. I, Monte Carlo, 1960, no. 126, p. 152 (the lithograph illustrated p. 155).

P. Cramer, Marc Chagall, The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné, Geneva, 1995, p. 92 (the lithograph illustrated).

M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, no. 14, pp. 315-316 (illustrated p. 316; titled 'Moses with the Tablets').

V. Bougault, 'L'Antiquité au goût du jour', in Connaissance des arts, no. 706, Paris, July - August 2012, p. 114 (illustrated in situ).



Exhibited

Bonn, Bundeskanzleramt, Marc Chagall, Die Bibel, Gouachen, Aquarelle, Pastelle und Zeichnungen aus dem Nachlass des Künstlers, November 1989 - January 1990, no. 46, p. 72 (illustrated; titled 'Mose mit den Gesetzestafeln' and with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Mainz, Landesmuseum, February - April 1990.

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011- 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA63MA).



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