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MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Le soleil à la guirlande ou Le paysage vert ou Soleil à Saint Jean
signed 'Marc Chagall.' (lower right)
gouache and pastel on paper
29 7/8 x 21 5/8 in. (77 x 55.6 cm.)
Executed in 1949
Provenance
Franz Meyer, Switzerland, a gift from the artist in 1953.
Ida Meyer Chagall, Switzerland.
Private collection, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall Life and Work, Cologne, 1961, no. 801, p. 759 (illustrated).
J. Cassou, Chagall, London, 1965, no. 149, p. 282 (illustrated p. 217).
A. P. Mandiargues, Chagall, Paris, 1975, p. 85 (illustrated).
R. Negri, Marc Chagall Milan, 1978, no. 74 (illustrated).
Bunte, No. 25/87, Munich, 11 June 1987, p. 90 (illustrated).
J. Baal-Teshuva, Chagall: A Retrospective, 1995, p. 213 (illustrated).
J. Baal-Teshuva, Chagall, Cologne, 1998, p. 189 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Hannover, Kestner-Gessellschaft, Marc Chagall May - June 1955, no. 74.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Marc Chagall February - March 1959, no. 248; this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, April - May 1959 and Paris, Muse´e des arts de´coratifs, June - September 1959.
Copenhagen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Oskar Kokoschka - Marc Chagall October - November 1960, no. 27.
Knokke Le Zoute, Casino Communal, Hommage à Marc Chagall Exposition retrospective, July - September 1961, no. 61 (illustrated).
Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Marc Chagall October - November 1963, no. 171, p. 113 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Modern Art, November - December 1963.
St. Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Hommage à Marc Chagall : Œuvres de 1947-1967, Summer 1967, no. 92 (illustrated).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Chagall, May - July 1967, no. 244, p. 43
Paris, Grand Palais, Hommage à Marc Chagall December 1969 - March 1970, no. 107, p. 137 (illustrated).
Humlebaek, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Marc Chagall March - May 1970, no. 58.
Marcq-en-Barœul, Fondation Anne et Albert Prouvost, Septentrion, Hommage à Marc Chagall October - December 1975, no. 46 (illustrated).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Exposition Marc Chagall August - September 1976, no. 79 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Modern Art, September - October 1976; Nagoya, Prefectoral Museum of Aichi, November 1976 and Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefectoral Museum of Art, November - December 1976.
Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, Marc Chagall zum 100. Geburtstag: Gouachen und Aquarelle, June - August 1987, p. 152 (illustrated p. 153).
Kasama, Museum of Tokyo Cultural Village Kasama Nichido, Marc Chagall October 1989 - March 1990.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Marc Chagall March - June 1991, no. 63 (illustrated).
Salzburg, Rupertinum, Chagall, March - June 1991, no. 63 (illustrated).
Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Marc Chagall March - June 1994, no. 63, p. 146 (illustrated p. 147).
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