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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2014 | Stockholms Auktionsverk | Stockholm | Klassiska | 2301 | $****** - ****** | Bouquet à la lune |
Works on Paper
31 x 23.8 cm (12.2 x 9.37 in)
watercolor on paper
Signed
Alex Maguy, Galerie de l'Elysée, Paris, photo certificate from Alex Maguy, dated Paris 12 March 1975 follow this lot,Tore Gershman collection, Stockholm,Letter from Ida Chagall to art dealer Tore Gerschman, confirming the authenticity of the watercoulour dated 2 February 1988 follow this lot,A photo certificate from Comité Chagall will follow this lot.,Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding,,(Marc Chagall),Flowers have long been a symbol of beauty, fruitfulness and innocence as well as a reminder of the fragility of life,They were a constant motif throughout Chagall's oeuvre and held great meaning for the artist,Chagall often embellished the margins of his floral still lives with miniature lovers, and although they inhabit the upper part of our painting only, the great burst of flowers appears to emanate from them, amplifying their presence, giving rise to an joyous expression of their love and joy,Young lovers, the bride and groom, or the newlywed couple, can be counted as the most frequent subject in Chagall's paintings,Chagall continued to paint his first wife Bella as the eternal bride, goddess and muse in his pictures, and during the seven years he lived with Virginia he often mingled the images of Bella and Virginia, who represented in his imagination the spiritual and sensual aspects of love,,The Russian born French based artist is one of the most prolific and successful artist of the 20th Century,Considered to be a pioneer of modernism and a critical member of the Avant-garde.,Drawing his inspiration from reality, dreams and culture, Chagall flirted with Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism yet was a follower of no one movement,Separated by the unconventional world with his distinctive iconography, his hybrids and fantasy animals, his acrobats, musicians and lovers, sometimes lit by the moon, sometimes by the sun, turned him with no doubt into a timeless legend.
