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The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Details
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Autoportrait
signed 'Chagall.' (lower right)
pen and brush and ink on paper
8 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (20.6 x 13.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1927
Autoportrait
signed 'Chagall.' (lower right)
pen and brush and ink on paper
8 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (20.6 x 13.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1927
Provenance
David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by 1985.
Acquired from the above in 1987.
Private collection.
Acquired from the above in 1987.
Private collection.
Exhibited
Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall: Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May - July 1988, p. 96 (illustrated p. 97; dated 'circa 1925'); this exhibition later travelled to Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, December 1990 - March 1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, October - November 1994; and Meina, Palazzo Municipale, June - August 1996.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris: Zeichnungen 1906-1967, December 1997 - January 1998.
Brescia, Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall: Il messaggio biblico, May - July 1998, p. 27 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1925').
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall, February - May 2000, p. 47 (illustrated)
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, From Russia to Paris: Drawings and Watercolors 1906-1967, January 2002, p. 43 (illustrated).
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris: Zeichnungen 1906-1967, December 1997 - January 1998.
Brescia, Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall: Il messaggio biblico, May - July 1998, p. 27 (illustrated; dated 'circa 1925').
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall, February - May 2000, p. 47 (illustrated)
Boca Raton, Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, From Russia to Paris: Drawings and Watercolors 1906-1967, January 2002, p. 43 (illustrated).
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