Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Le violoniste
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower center)
oil and tempera on canvas
317/8 x 235/8 in. (81 x 60 cm.)
Painted in 1975
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1990, lot 68.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Navarra, Chagall, 1989, p. 65 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, Odakyu Museum; Himeji, Municipal Museum of Art; Mié Tsu, Prefectoral Museum of Art; and Yamaguchi, Prefectoral Museum of Art, Chagall, October 1992-November 1993, p. 78, no. 39 (illustrated in color).
Lot Essay
A photo-certificate from Jean-Louis Prat of the Comité Chagall dated Saint-Paul, 29 June 1989 accompanies this painting.