Beschreibung:

MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
L’ange pourpre
gouache, watercolor, pastel and black chalk on paper
signed 'Marc Chagall' (lower right)
30 1/8 x 22 in. (76.5 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1941
Provenance
Private collection, Chicago (circa 1945).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall New York, 1964, p. 757, no. 701 (illustrated).
W. Haftmann, Marc Chagall Gouaches, Drawings, Watercolors, New York, 1984, pp. 90 and 209, no. 51 (illustrated in color, p. 91, pl. 51).
Exhibited
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, European Artists in America, March-April 1945, p. 6, no. 10.
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Marc Chagall October-December 1963, no. 156 (illustrated).
Kunsthaus Zürich, Chagall, May-July 1967, p. 42, no. 233.
Post lot text
The Comité Marc Chagall has confirmed the authenticity of this work.