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Tête de vache or La vache
Details
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Tête de vache or La vache
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right) and inscribed in Cyrillic (in the composition)
gouache and pencil on paper
25 3⁄4 x 19 3⁄4 in. (65.5 x 50.3 cm.)
Executed in 1926
Tête de vache or La vache
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right) and inscribed in Cyrillic (in the composition)
gouache and pencil on paper
25 3⁄4 x 19 3⁄4 in. (65.5 x 50.3 cm.)
Executed in 1926
Provenance
(possibly) Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, by 1928.
Private collection, Gstaad, by whom acquired in the late 1930s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Private collection, Gstaad, by whom acquired in the late 1930s, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work, London, 1964, no. 417, p. 752 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Marc Chagal - Japon, October - November 1963, no. 144, pp. 74 & 179 (illustrated p. 74; titled 'La fête de vache'); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum, November - December 1963.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Chagall, May - July 1967, no. 212, p. 40.
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten, September - October 1967, no. 90 (illustrated pl. 50).
New York, Guggenheim Museum, Chagall, Works on Paper/Selected Masterpieces, June - September 1975, no. 19, p. 73 (illustrated p. 29).
Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Marc Chagall: mein Leben, mein Traum: Berlin und Paris, 1922-1940, April - September 1990, no. 38 (illustrated pl. 34).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Chagall, May - July 1967, no. 212, p. 40.
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten, September - October 1967, no. 90 (illustrated pl. 50).
New York, Guggenheim Museum, Chagall, Works on Paper/Selected Masterpieces, June - September 1975, no. 19, p. 73 (illustrated p. 29).
Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Marc Chagall: mein Leben, mein Traum: Berlin und Paris, 1922-1940, April - September 1990, no. 38 (illustrated pl. 34).
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Further Details
The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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