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Lot Essay
The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
The present work depicts newlyweds seated by a table laden with a large bouquet of flowers. They represent the artist and his beloved first wife Bella, who died in 1944, but who remained his eternal bride and forever the light of his life. Much of Chagall's enduring immersion in Bella's memory was any man's nostalgia for the great love of his youth. Chagall was fortunate enough to have married his first true love, and he cultivated these beautiful memories like a patient and ever mindful gardener. For Chagall in his advanced age, as was also the case with Pablo Picasso, memory became the key to creativity; the desire to revisit and relive all the stages of a long and passionate life imparts a poignant dimension to the work of this artist's old age, in pictures that betoken a wisdom beyond words.
The present work depicts newlyweds seated by a table laden with a large bouquet of flowers. They represent the artist and his beloved first wife Bella, who died in 1944, but who remained his eternal bride and forever the light of his life. Much of Chagall's enduring immersion in Bella's memory was any man's nostalgia for the great love of his youth. Chagall was fortunate enough to have married his first true love, and he cultivated these beautiful memories like a patient and ever mindful gardener. For Chagall in his advanced age, as was also the case with Pablo Picasso, memory became the key to creativity; the desire to revisit and relive all the stages of a long and passionate life imparts a poignant dimension to the work of this artist's old age, in pictures that betoken a wisdom beyond words.