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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Lot 25
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 25 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Estimate value
$ 8 000 000 – 12 000 000
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Le songe du Roi David
signed and dated 'Marc Chagall 1966' (lower left)
oil, tempera and sawdust on canvas
81 ¾ x 108 ½ in. (207.6 x 275.6 cm.)
Painted in 1966




Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Jean Coulon, Paris (acquired from the above, 1988).
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.



Literature

Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura City, 2022, p. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 43).



Exhibited

Kunsthaus Zürich, Chagall, May-July 1967, p. 35, no. 164 (illustrated, pl. 40).
Kunsthalle Cologne, Marc Chagall: Werk aus sechs Jahrzehnten, September-October 1967, p. 46, no. 187 (illustrated, p. 104).
Tokyo, The 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. 25 (illustrated in color).
Nice, Musée National Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall: Peintures bibliques récentes: 1966-1976, July-September 1977, p. 22, no. 3 (illustrated, p. 23; dated 1967).
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Chagall: L'image de l'amour, February-March 1996, p. 8, no. 46 (illustrated in color).
Fukuoka Art Museum; Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Art Museum; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum; Kagoshima City Museum of Art and Sakura City, SOGO Museum of Art, Marc Chagall, April-November 1997, p. 83, no. 53 (illustrated in color).
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Marc Chagall, October-November 1997, pp. 19 and 145, no. 2 (illustrated in color, p. 19).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Art for Life's Sake, March-June 2000, p. 59, no. 27 (illustrated in color).
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Chagall: The World of Love and Color, December 2001-January 2002, p. 76 (illustrated in color).
Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; Masuda, Shimane Prefectural Iwami Art Museum and Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, July 2007-January 2008, pp. 28 and 112, no. 14 (illustrated in color, pp. 29-30).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Arbors of Art: Eleven Rooms Where Paintings Reside, May 2015-January 2016, no. 10.
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art; Utsunomiya Museum of Art and Fukuyama Museum of Art, Rendez-vous dans le Midi, March-December 2023, no. 4.21.
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 1990-2025: Art, Architecture, Nature, March 2025.



Further Details

The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Artist:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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