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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Lot 272
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Lot 272 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

La vache dans la chambre

signed and dated '1911. Chagall.' (lower centre); indistinctly signed and dated again '1911 Chagall' (lower right)

gouache and pen and ink, heightened with silver and gold, on paper laid down on board

7 ¼ x 8 ¼ in. (18.5 x 21 cm.)

Executed in Paris in 1911





Provenance

Prof. Stephen Bartow Baxter & Mrs Ann Sweeney Baxter, North Carolina & New York, a gift from the artist; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1982, lot 13.

Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

'Marc Chagall', in Sélection, Chronique de la vie artistique, no. 6, Antwerp, 1929, p. 76 (illustrated; titled 'Intérieur').

F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work, London, 1964, no. 69, p. 746 (illustrated p. 626; with incorrect dimensions).

A.P. de Mandiargues, Chagall, Paris, 1974, no. 2, p. 202 (illustrated p. 7; with inverted dimensions).

A. Kamensky, Chagall, The Russian Years 1907-1922, London, 1989, p. 83 (illustrated; with inverted dimensions).



Exhibited

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Marc Chagall, November 1984 - February 1985, no. 11, n.p. (titled 'Vache sur le plancher d’argent').

Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, Marc Chagall zum 100. Geburtstag, Gouachen und Aquarelle, June - August 1987, p. 88 (illustrated p. 89; with inverted dimensions).

London, Barbican Art Gallery, Chagall to Kitaj, Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art, October 1990 - January 1991, no. 101, p. 187.

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Marc Chagall, Die Russischen Jahre 1906-1922, June - September 1991, no. 24, p. 389 (illustrated pl. 24).

Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, March - June 1994, no. 10, p. 56 (illustrated p. 57).

Paris, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Marc Chagall, Les années russes, 1907-1922, April - September 1995, no. 31, p. 264 (illustrated p. 68).

Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Chagall: The Breakthrough Years, 1911-1919, September 2017 - January 2018, no. 11, p. 288 (illustrated p. 162); this exhibition later travelled to Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, June - September 2018.



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