Lot Essay
The Comit Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
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Details
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Chagall, M.
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signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right); signed again 'Marc Chagall' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 18 in. (52 x 46.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1930
Chagall, M.
L'annunciation
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right); signed again 'Marc Chagall' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 x 18 in. (52 x 46.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1930
Provenance
Mr. Marini, Geneva.
O'Hana Gallery, London.
Galerie Motte, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 15 November 1988, lot 50.
O'Hana Gallery, London.
Galerie Motte, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 15 November 1988, lot 50.
Exhibited
London, O'Hana Gallery, Chagall, June-August 1961, no. 17 (illustrated).
London, O'Hana Gallery, Summer Exhibition; French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June-September 1964, no. 8 (illustrated).
Yokohama, Yokohama-Takashimaya Gallery; Tokyo, Nihonbashi-Takashimaya Hall; Osaka, Kintetsu Art Hall; Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, and Kyoto, Kyoto-Takashimaya Grand Hall, Marc Chagall, 1995-1996, p. 118, no. 1 (illustrated).
Chiba, Prefectural Museum of Art; Takasaki; Miyagi, and Obihiro, Marc Chagall, May-June 1997, no. 1 (illustrated, p. 15).
London, O'Hana Gallery, Summer Exhibition; French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June-September 1964, no. 8 (illustrated).
Yokohama, Yokohama-Takashimaya Gallery; Tokyo, Nihonbashi-Takashimaya Hall; Osaka, Kintetsu Art Hall; Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, and Kyoto, Kyoto-Takashimaya Grand Hall, Marc Chagall, 1995-1996, p. 118, no. 1 (illustrated).
Chiba, Prefectural Museum of Art; Takasaki; Miyagi, and Obihiro, Marc Chagall, May-June 1997, no. 1 (illustrated, p. 15).
Sale room notice
Please note this painting was executed in 1956.