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Lot 6
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Marc Chagall

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Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • AUTOPORTRAIT
  • signed Marc Chagall (lower left)

  • pen, brush, and ink on paper

  • 19.7 by 24.5 cm.
  • 7 3/4 by 9 5/8 in.
  • Executed circa 1940

Provenance

David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the artist (no. D 1981)
Acquired from the above in 1987
Sale: Christie's, London, 8th February 2007, lot 614
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 1990-1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, October-November 1994; Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June-August 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-May 2000, illustrated, p. 57. Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, January-March 2002.

Literature

V. Rakitin, Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, Milan, 1989, p. 130, illustrated p. 131.