MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Lot 71
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ID 1423005
Lot 71 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
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$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Autour de Vence
signed and dated 'Marc Chagall 1955-7' (lower right); signed and dated again 'Marc Chagall 1956-7' (on the stretcher)
oil and sawdust on canvas
63 5/8 x 51 5/8 in. (162 x 131.1 cm.)
Painted in 1955-1957




Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris (by 1959, until at least 1967).
Private collection, Tokyo (by 1976); sale, Christie’s, New York, 9 November 1994, lot 59.
Gana Art, Seoul.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1995.



Literature

F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, New York, 1964, no. 964 (illustrated).
G. di San Lazzaro, Homage to Marc Chagall, New York, 1969, p. 114 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Chagall, July-August 1957, no. 18 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Marc Chagall, June-October 1959, p. 412, no. 166 (illustrated, p. 413).
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art and Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, Marc Chagall, October-December 1963, pp. 128 and 179, no. 102 (illustrated in color, p. 128).
New York, Perls Galleries, Marc Chagall: Paintings 1955-1964, April-May 1965, no. 1 (illustrated in color).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Hommage à Marc Chagall: Œuvres de 1947-1967, summer 1967, p. 30, no. 43 (illustrated).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Marc Chagall, August-December 1976, no. 14 (illustrated in color).
Gunma, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Nagano, Prefectural Shinano Art Museum and Machida, Odakyu Department Store, Chagall: Hymn to Love and Life, March-May 1981, no. 6 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, The Bunkamura Fine Arts Museum; Ibaraki, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art and Nagoya City Art Museum, Chagall, October 1989-March 1990, p. 151, no. 105 (illustrated in color, p. 150).



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