Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Lot 128 PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

Paysage au poisson bleu

Closed21 June 2012

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GBP 79,250

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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

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.

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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).