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Marc Chagall 1887-1985
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Description
- Marc Chagall
- The Cellist
- signed Chagall, lower right
- pencil, ink and wash on paper
- 10 1/4 by 7 5/8 in.
- 26.2 by 19.3 cm.
Provenance
Abraham Sutzkever, Tel Aviv (gift from the artist)
(sold: Sothebys, Tel Aviv, April 4, 1994, lot 44)
Private Collection, New York
Catalogue Note
In 1953, Chagall illustrated Abraham Sutzkever's book of poems, Sibir [Siberia], for which this work is a study. Sutzkever (born 1913) is now considered to be the world's foremost Yiddish poet.