MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Lot 49
15.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1472428
Lot 49 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Estimate value
£ 900 000 – 1 200 000
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Les fiancés à l'ange rouge
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 ¾ x 19 5/8 in. (73.2 x 49.7 cm.)
Painted in 1937-1938




Provenance

Heinz Berggruen, San Francisco, by 1940.
Dr Walter & Mrs Esther Rothman, Los Angeles.
Galerie Berggruen et Cie., Paris, by whom acquired from the above in 1962.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired from the above in 1962.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, by whom acquired from the above in March 1962.
Mrs Lincoln Harris, Minneapolis, 1963; sale, Sotheby's, Tokyo, 3 October 1969, lot 386.
Private collection, Japan, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, New York, 12 May 1998, lot 45.
Acquired at the above sale by Max and Cecile Draime.



Literature

F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work, New York, 1964, no. 634, p. 756 (illustrated).



Exhibited

San Francisco, Museum of Art, Contemporary Art, Paintings, Watercolors and Sculpture owned in the San Francisco Bay Region, January - February 1940, no. 69, p. 33 (illustrated).
Pasadena, Art Museum, Chagall: Seventieth Anniversary Exhibition, May - July 1957, no. 22, p. 28.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Selection from the Collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1962 - 1963, vol. IV, no. 49, p. 33 (illustrated).
Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1915-1965, November 1965 - January 1966 (dated '1938').
Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, Selections from the Private Collection of David M. and Cecile Draime, April - November 2022, p. 10 (illustrated p. 10; illustrated again on the cover).



Further Details

The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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