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HUGO ERFURTH (1874-1948)
Lot 35 PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGEFELD COLLECTION

HUGO ERFURTH (1874-1948)

Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923

Closed15 May 2008

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GBP 20,900

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HUGO ERFURTH (1874-1948)
Marc and Bella Chagall, 1923
bromoil print
signed and annotated 'Dresden phot.' in negative; credited, titled, numbered '7', '166' [crossed out] and printing notations in other hands in graphite/red wax pencil, 'Secondo "Salon" Italiano' exhibition label on verso

This and the following prints (lots 35-36) are credited and titled in the same unknown hand which differs from all other instances of annotations in unknown hands in this group (lots 27-40).
11 x 8½in. (28 x 21.5cm.)

As lot 27.

Specialist note

Erfurth's touching double portrait, with the two heads isolated in an indeterminate space and gazing in opposite directions, calls to mind Chagall's own visual devices and his delight in setting his subjects afloat, weightless within the dream-like spaces of his pictures (fig.1).