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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2025 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 26A | $****** - ****** | Le soleil rouge ou Le soleil des amoureux |
paintings
139.4 x 98.1 cm (54.88 x 38.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated "1949 Marc Chagall" (lower right)
Estate of the artist.
Jean Coulon, Paris (acquired from the above, 1988).
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.
Kunsthalle Bern, Marc Chagall: 1950-1956 , October-November 1956, no. 1.
Hamburg Kunstverein; Munich, Haus der Kunst and Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Chagall , February-September 1959, p. 41, no. 135.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Chagall , May-July 1967, p. 32, no. 130.
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Marc Chagall , March-May 1970, p. 39, no. 56.
Fukuoka Art Museum; Nagoya, Matsuzakaya Art Museum; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum; Kagoshima City Museum of Art and Sakura City, SOGO Museum of Art, Marc Chagall , April-November 1997, p. 68, no. 40 (illustrated in color).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Art for Life"s Sake , March-June 2000, p. 57, no. 26 (illustrated in color).
Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Great Masters of 20th Century Art , August-September 2000, pp. 39 and 158, no. 15 (illustrated in color, p. 39).
Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art and Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Chagall , April-June 2002, p. 122 (illustrated in color, p. 123).
Shizuoka Art Gallery, Marc Chagall , August-October 2003, pp. 12 and 78, no. 3 (illustrated in color, p. 12).
Kitashiobara, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Chagall , April-July 2005.
Aomori Museum of Art, Chagall: Exile in America and The Aleko , July-September 2006, pp. 236 and 299, no. 43 (illustrated in color, p. 237).
Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nouveaux Regards sur Marc Chagall , June 2013-June 2014, p. 260, no. 3 (illustrated in color).
Vienna, Albertina Museum, Chagall , September 2024-February 2025, pp. 180 and 242, no. 81 (illustrated in color, p. 181).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 1990-2025: Art, Architecture, Nature , February-March 2025.
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall , New York, 1964, p. 488 (illustrated).
S. Compton, ed., Chagall , exh. cat., The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1985, p. 224 (illustrated).
Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art , Sakura City, 2022, p. 41 (illustrated in color).
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Le soleil rouge ou Le soleil des amoureux
signed and dated "1949 Marc Chagall" (lower right)
oil on canvas
54 7/8 x 38 5/8 in. (139.5 x 98 cm.)
Painted in 1949
