Juif à la thora

Details

MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Juif à la thora
stamped with the signature 'Marc Chagall' (lower left)
gouache, tempera, brush and India ink and coloured ink on Japan paper
29 3⁄8 x 22 3⁄8 in. (75.5 x 57.8 cm.)
Executed in Gstaad in January - February 1971

Provenance

The estate of the artist, and thence by descent.

Special notice

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. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Further details

The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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Lot Essay

'Chagall's work abounds with imagery, so too does that of Rouault, but his subjects were directly inspired by the world of the Bible; those of Chagall are taken from the outer fringes of Judaism. He illustrated the Bible, you will say? Yet everything that he depicts, whether in close-up or at a distance, belongs to a popular Bible that he himself has lovingly invented... Chagall created a world not present in the scriptures - rabbis walking the earth, lovers flying through the air and wandering clocks'
- André Malraux (in Chagall, A Retrospective, New York, 1995, p. 339).

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