Jeune fille au bouquet

Details

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Jeune fille au bouquet
signed and dated 'Chagall 1926' (lower right)
watercolour, brush and India ink and pencil on thin card
10 x 8 in. (25.2 x 20.1 cm.)
Executed in 1926

Provenance

David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the artist (no. D 1079).
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1987.

Literature

V. Rakitin, Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, Milan, 1989, p. 112 (ill. p. 113).

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. 22 (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.

The spontaneous brushstrokes used in Jeune fille au bouquet prove how far Chagall is ready to free himself from any artistic theory or 'ism' school. He does not hesitate to let his mind express itself through this sketch, in which the woman carrying flowers stands out against the dark background and this subject will often feature in Chagall's paintings. Using ink wash as his medium, Chagall attempts to plunge his female figure in a mysterious world, as she seems to be an apparition coming out from a dream.

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