ID 1163439
Lot 50 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
La fête des tabernacles (Souccot)
signed 'Marc Chagall' (in Hebrew, lower left); signed 'M. Chagall' (in Cyrillic, lower right)
gouache, coloured ink, India ink and pen and wash and pencil on paper
18 ½ x 25 1⁄8 in. (47 x 63.8 cm.)
Executed in Vitebsk in 1916-1918
Provenance
Yakov Rosenfeld [the artist's brother in law], Leningrad.
E.J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam (no. G 8580), by November 1965.
Ernst & Felicia von Abensperg und Traun, Vienna & Bergisch-Gladbach, by whom acquired from the above by 1967.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1996, lot 31.
Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work, New York, 1963, no. 257, p. 750 (illustrated p. 642; with incorrect dimensions).
A. P. de Mandiargues, Chagall, Paris, 1974, no. 20, p. 203 (illustrated p. 39; dated ‘1916’ and with incorrect dimensions).
J. Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall, Cologne, 1998, p. 79 (illustrated p. 78; dated '1917').
Exhibited
Amsterdam, E. J. Van Wisselingh & Co., Maîtres français XIXme et XXme siècles, November - December 1965.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Chagall, May - July 1967, no. 204, p. 39 (dated '1917').
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Marc Chagall: Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten, September - October 1967, no. 70, p. 32 (dated '1917').
Further Details
The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
| Artist: | Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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