ID 1472397
Lot 51 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Estimate value
£ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
L’Accordéoniste dans le bec ou Ciel d’hiver
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)
oil on canvas
33 5/8 x 22 ¾ in. (85.4 x 58 cm.)
Painted in New York between 1942 and 1949
Provenance
Paul Bernard Vogel, Geneva.
Mr Peter & Mrs Elizabeth Rübel, Greenwich, Connecticut, by 1956 and until at least 1967.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Private collection, Toronto, by whom acquired from the above on 4 March 1969; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1993, lot 50.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13 May 1997, lot 67.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
M. Fischer, Maître de la première génération de vingtième siècle: A group of paintngs in the Collection of Peter and Elizabeth Rübel, Zurich, 1956, no. 44, p. 100 (illustrated p. 101).
J. Lasainge, Chagall, Paris, 1957, p. 123 (illustrated).
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work, New York, 1963, no. 486, p. 744 (illustrated pl. 486).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Marc Chagall, March - April 1956, no. 16 (illustrated pl. 16; dated ‘1945’).
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Marc Chagall, February - March 1959, no. 136 (illustrated pl. 136; dated '1949'); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, April - May 1959 and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, June - October 1959, no. 148 (dated '1949').
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Chagall, May - July 1967, no. 131, p. 33.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museums, Marc Chagall, Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten, September - October 1967, no. 147, p. 42 (illustrated p. 85).
Further Details
The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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