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Property from an Important Private Collector

Marc Chagall

L’Ange et la fiancée

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collector

Marc Chagall

(1887 - 1985)


L’Ange et la fiancée

signed Marc Chagall (lower right)

oil on canvas

33 ½ by 25 ½ in. 

81 by 65 cm.

Executed circa 1930-32.


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

Arthur and Renée Freed, Beverly Hills (acquired by 1957)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 May 1979, lot 249 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection, South America (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s, New York, 10 May 1989, lot 68

Private Collection, China

Tajan, Paris, 27 July 2010, lot 27

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Lilienfeld Galleries, Marc Chagall, 1938, no. 9 (titled Flowers)

Pasadena Art Museum, Chagall 70th Anniversary Exhibition, 1957, no. 23, illustrated (titled Lovers and Bouquet and dated 1932)