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Marc Chagall

Le Grand visage

Session begins in

May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 550,000 USD

Bid

300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Marc Chagall

1887 - 1985


Le Grand visage

signed Chagall and dated 1955-59 (lower right)

pastel, brush and ink, pen and ink and colored pencil on paper

25 ¼ by 19 ¼ in. 

64 by 49 cm. 

Executed in 1955-59.


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

Estate of the artist

Acquired from the above in 2023 by the present owner

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chagall 1887-1985, 1994, no. 33

Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Marc Chagall, 1994, no. 47

Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall, les années méditerranéenes, 1949-1985, 1994, no. 73, p. 105, illustrated in color

Dortmund, Galerie Utermann, Marc Chagall. 22 Originale, 2024, pp. 46-47 and 79, illustrated in color

Werner Haftmann, Marc Chagall: Gouaches, Drawings, Watercolors, New York, 1984, no. 65, illustrated (titled Self-Portrait)