Paysage au poisson bleu

Details

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Paysage au poisson bleu
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)
monotype heightened with tempera on Japon nacré paper, with full margins
plate: 11 5/8 x 15½ in. (29.5 x 39.5 cm.)
Executed in 1962

Provenance

Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (no. 3292).
Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Christie's, London, 1 December 1987, lot 409.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

J. Leymarie & G. Cramer, Marc Chagall, Monotypes, 1961-1965, Geneva, 1966, no. 47 (illustrated p. 75).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Neither Vence nor Paris could ever erase the memory of Vitebsk and the umbilical bond between the artist and his beloved childhood land. Le paysage au poisson bleu holds the painter and his family with floating animals between the grand monuments of Paris and the humble houses of Vitebsk. (ibid., p. 38).

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