MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

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ID 990270
Lot 67 | MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)

Arlequin à la lune jaune

signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right); signed again 'Chagall' (on the rightmost figure)

gouache, pastel and pencil on paper

26 x 20 1/8 in. (65.9 x 51 cm.)

Executed in 1969





Provenance

Galerie Maeght, Paris.

Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris.

I. A. & Cecile Mann Victor, New York & Dallas, and thence by descent to their estate; sale, Christie’s, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 222.

Private collection, New York; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 May 1992, lot 175.

Galleria del Sogno, Lugano, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie’s, London, 2 December 1996, lot 50.

Private collection, Cologne by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby’s, London 7 December 1999, lot 62.

Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 18 May 2022, lot 240.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Derrière le Miroir: Marc Chagall, December 1969 - January 1970, no. 14, p. 32.

Lugano, Galleria del Sogno, Marc Chagall: Le cirque, les fleurs, October 1992 - January 1993, p. 23 (illustrated).

Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Marc Chagall, March - June 1994, no. 95, p. 202 (illustrated).



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