Etude de costume pour ballet d'opéra 'Nidjinska' (La mendiante)

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Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Etude de costume pour ballet d'opéra 'Nidjinska' (La mendiante)
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower left)
watercolour, wash and pencil on paper
11 1/8 x 6 in. (28.3 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 1967

Provenance

David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the artist (no. B 205).
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1987.

Literature

V. Rakitin, Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, Milan, 1989 (ill. p. 148).

Exhibited

Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May - July 1988; this exhibition later travelled to Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, Dec. 1990 - Mar. 1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, Oct.- Nov. 1994; Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June - Aug. 1996.
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Marc Chagall, "Himmel und Erde", Dec. 1996 - Feb. 1997.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris, Zeichnungen 1906-1967, Dec. 1997 - Jan. 1998.
Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall, Il messaggio biblico, May - July 1998.
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall, Feb.- May 2000, p. 133 (ill.).
Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, Jan.- Mar. 2002.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from David McNeil.

DIVIDER:
Marc Chagall i his studio, 1942. Archives Marc et Ida Chagall, Paris; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London, 2007.

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