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Marc Chagall

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Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • LES AMOUREUX
  • signed Chagall (lower right)
  • pen and ink and pencil on paper
  • 17.7 by 20 cm.
  • 7 by 7 7/8 in.
  • Executed circa 1920.

Provenance

David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the artist (no. D 2542).
Acquired from the above in 1987
Sale: Christie's, London, 8th February 2007, lot 590
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May-July 1988; Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, December 1990- March 1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, October-November 1994; Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, 1996.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Marc Chagall, Himmel und Erde, December 1996- Febuary 1997.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris, Zeichnungen 1906-1967, December 1997- January 1998.
Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall, Il messaggio biblico, May-July 1998.
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall, Febuary 2000, illustrated p. 40 Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, 2002.

Literature

V. Rakitin, Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, Milan, 1989, p. 122 (illustrated p. 123)