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Property of a Distinguished American Collector

Marc Chagall

Hommage au passé (La Ville)

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Details

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Property of a Distinguished American Collector

Marc Chagall

1887 – 1985

Hommage au passé (La Ville)


Signed Marc Chagall and dated 944 (lower right)

Oil on canvas

28 by 29 7/8 in.

71 by 75.8 cm

Painted in 1944.


The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by the Comité Chagall.

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired by 1948)

Dr. J.J. Mayers, New York

Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York

Feigl Gallery, New York

Frederick & Helen Serger, New York (acquired by 1954)

Mr. & Mrs. Ludwig Neugass, New York (acquired by 1956 and until at least 1965)

Sale: Doyle's, New York, May 17, 1984, lot 88

Private Collection, Australia (acquired by 1986 and sold: Christie's, London, February 7, 2012, lot 43)

Private Collection, United States (acquired at the above sale and sold: Christie's, London, February 27, 2018, lot 25)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above 

Raïssa Maritain, Chagall ou l'orage Enchanté, Geneva & Paris, 1948, illustrated p. 154 (illustration of the first state)

Franz Meyer, Marc Chagall: Life and Work, New York, 1964, no. 736, pp. 452 & 758, illustrated n.p. (titled La Ville)

Jean Cassou, Chagall, London, 1965, no. 115, illustrated p. 280 (titled Homage to the Past)

Jacob Baal-Teshuva, ed., Chagall. A Retrospective, New York, 1995, illustrated in color pl. 52 (titled Tribute to the Past)

Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, Cologne, 2008, illustrated p. 169 

New York, Perls Galleries, Marc Chagall, 1956, no. 15

Tokyo, Museum of Western Art & Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Kyoto, Marc Chagall, 1963, no. 69, illustrated in the catalogue