MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) - photo 1

MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Lot 421
04.03.2022 13:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 421 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Tête de vache or La vache

signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right) and inscribed in Cyrillic (in the composition)

gouache and pencil on paper

25 3⁄4 x 19 3⁄4 in. (65.5 x 50.3 cm.)

Executed in 1926







Provenance

(possibly) Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, by 1928.

Private collection, Gstaad, by whom acquired in the late 1930s, and thence by descent to the present owner.







Literature

F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work, London, 1964, no. 417, p. 752 (illustrated).





Exhibited

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Marc Chagal - Japon, October - November 1963, no. 144, pp. 74 & 179 (illustrated p. 74; titled 'La fête de vache'); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum, November - December 1963.

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Chagall, May - July 1967, no. 212, p. 40.

Cologne, Kunsthalle, Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten, September - October 1967, no. 90 (illustrated pl. 50).

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Chagall, Works on Paper/Selected Masterpieces, June - September 1975, no. 19, p. 73 (illustrated p. 29).

Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Marc Chagall: mein Leben, mein Traum: Berlin und Paris, 1922-1940, April - September 1990, no. 38 (illustrated pl. 34).









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The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Artist:Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
Applied technique:Gouache
Art style:20th Century Realism
Place of origin:Eastern Europe, Europe, Russia
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