Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Personnages de cirque
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower left)
gouache, watercolour, pastel and pen and India ink on paper
20 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (51.2 x 35.9 cm.)
Executed in 1966
Provenance
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (no. ST7783).
Acquired from the above and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, Tel Aviv, 24 April 1997, lot 27.
Private collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above; sale, Christie's, Tel Aviv, 10 April 2007, lot 34.
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner, and then gifted to the present owner.
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Marc Chagall, Watercolors, Gouaches, Drawings, November - December 1969, no. 30 (illustrated).
Milan, Galleria Eunomia, Marc Chagall, November 1970, no. 5 (illustrated).
Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from the Comité Marc Chagall.