Lot 136
  • 136

Marc Chagall

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marc Chagall
  • Les Fiancés
  • signed Marc Chagall (lower left)
  • gouache, ink, charcoal and pencil on paper
  • 33 by 19.5cm., 13 by 7 3/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris
Private Collection (acquired from the above in the 1950s)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 29th November 1989, lot 507
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Osaka, Takashimaya Art Gallery (and travelling), Mark Chagall, 2012, no. 53, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on board. All four edges are slightly unevenly cut, the sheet is very slightly time stained. Otherwise this work is in overall good condition and there is a lovely rich impasto to some of the pigments. Colours: Less saturated in the original when compared to the printed catalogue illustration.
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