Maisons

細節

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Maisons
signed 'Chagall' (lower left), dated '1911' (lower right) and inscribed in Cyrillic 'from the window' (lower centre)
watercolour, brush and ink and pencil on paper
7 x 4 3/8 in. (17.7 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1911

來源

The artist's estate (no. D891).
David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the above.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in 1987; sale, Christie's, London, 8 February 2007, lot 636.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

展覽

Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May - July 1988, p. 50 (illustrated p. 51); this exhibition later travelled to Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini and Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno.
Hanover, Sprengel Museum, Marc Chagall, "Himmel und Erde", December 1996 - February 1997.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris, Zeichnungen 1906-1967, December 1997 - January 1998.
Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall, Il messaggio biblico, May - July 1998, p. 23 (illustrated).
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall, February - May 2000, p. 39 (illustrated).
Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, January - March 2002.

注意事項

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

榮譽呈獻

Cornelia Svedman

csvedman@christies.com Tel: +44 (0)20 7389 2561

拍品專文

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

During his first trip to Paris (1910-1914), Chagall was so enthusiastic that he found sufficient to draw a few buildings, seen from his window. The Salon d'Automne of 1911 gave the opportunity to the Russian artist to view the most recent French painting, and meet the artists of the avant-garde through his friend, Robert Delaunay.

Here Chagall seems to have absorbed aspects of his friend Robert Delaunay's paintings, sharing an attraction to windows and window views linked to the Symbolists' use of glass panes as metaphors for the transition from internal to external states. The window was a recurring motif in many of Chagall's paintings, as it defined the separation between the inside and the 'other' world, one of the artist's main concerns.