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Marc Chagall (Belarusian, 1887–1985) · 1912

CHF 1,300,000 hammer

≈ $1,534,650≈ £1,169,970≈ €1,384,938 Show prices also in

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Medium: Gouache · Works on paper all gouache results →
As published: “Gouache, graphite pencil and Indian ink on wove paper”
Support: Paper
Signed / inscribed: Signed by the artist · Marc Chagall signature
Category: Watercolors
Dimensions: 26.2 x 47.3 cm
Auction house: Kornfeld
Sale: Auction 280: Highlights from the - Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection - Live Auction (280)
Date: September 13, 2024
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Lot: 34
Estimate: CHF 1,750,000 – — (≈ $2,065,875) (≈ £1,574,960) (≈ €1,864,340)
Source: Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 25, 2026

Provenance (4)

Probably gallery "Der Sturm", Herwarth Walden, Berlin
Théodore Ahrenberg Collection, Stockholm
Galerie d'Art Moderne, Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Basel, summer exhibition 1957, cat. no. 12, ill., purchased there by Galerie Kornfeld, Bern
The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b

Exhibitions (14)

Basel 1957, Galerie d'Art Moderne, cat. no. 12, ill.
Hamburg/Munich 1959, Kunsthalle/Haus der Kunst, Marc Chagall, cat. no. 190
Bern 1960, Klipstein and Kornfeld, Marc Chagall, cat. no. 7, ill.
Paris 1984, Centre Georges Pompidou, Marc Chagall, Œuvres sur papier, cat. no. 39, ill.
Rome 1984/1985, Musei Capitolini, Marc Chagall, cat. no. 39, ill.
Hanover/Zurich 1985, Kestner Gesellschaft/Kunsthaus,Marc Chagall, Arbeiten auf Papier, cat. no. 39, ill.
Bern 1989, Kunstmuseum Bern, Von Goya bis Tinguely, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus einer Privatsammlung [Slg. Eberhard W. Kornfeld], cat. no. 110, ill. p. 203
Paris 1995, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Marc Chagall, Les années russes, cat. no. 73, ill. p. 94
Bern 1995/1996, Kunstmuseum, Chagall 1907-1917, cat. no. 117, ill.
Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 41, ill.
Madrid 2003, Fundación Juan March, Espíritu de modernidad: de Goya a Giacometti, Obra sobre papel de la colección Kornfeld, cat. no. 40, p. 133, ill. p. 77
Vienna 2008/2009, Albertina, Wege der Moderne, Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 47, p. 284, ill. p. 85
Zurich/Liverpool 2013, Kunsthaus/Tate, Chagall - Master of Modernism, cat. no. 23, p. 186, ill. p. 86 (only exhibited in Zurich)
Basel 2017/2018, Kunstmuseum, Chagall – Die Jahre des Durchbruchs 1911-1919, cat. no. 64, p. 290, ill. p. 210

Literature (5)

Catalogue raisonné: Certificate of authenticity (no. 2024113) from the Comité Marc Chagall, Paris, dated 6 June 2024, is available
Werner Haftmann, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Cologne 1975, ill. reprod. 11
Daniel Marchesseau, Chagall, ivre d'images, Paris 1995, ill. p. 31
Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall, Cologne 1998, ill. p. 62
Monte Packham, Living with Matisse, Picasso and Christo, Theodor Ahrenberg and His Collections, London 2018, ill. p. 160-161

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