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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 17, 2025 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 478 | $****** - ****** | Devant la maison natale (recto); Esquisse de nu (verso) | |||
Jun 24, 2020 | Bonhams | London | Modern & Contemporary Art | 28 | $****** - ****** | Couple et gendarmes | |||
Jun 5, 2019 | Bonhams | London | The Russian Sale | 45 | $****** - ****** | Gendarmes Russes | |||
Feb 8, 2007 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 567 | $****** - ****** | Devant la maison Natale | |||
Feb 8, 2007 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 568 | $****** - ****** | Gendarmes Russes |
Works on Paper
15.9 x 14.6 cm (6.25 x 5.75 in)
pen and India ink on paper ( recto ); pencil on paper ( verso )
signed and dated "Chagall 1908" ( recto ; lower right)
The estate of the artist, and thence by descent.
David McNeil, Paris, by descent from the above.
Acquired from the above in 1987; sale, Christie"s, London, 8 February 2007, lot 567.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi , May - July 1988, p. 28 ( recto illustrated p. 29); this exhibition later travelled to Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, December 1990 - March 1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, October - November 1994; and Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June - August 1996.
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall, Von Russland nach Paris, Zeichnungen 1906-1967 , December 1997 - January 1998.
Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti Arte Contemporanea, Marc Chagall: Il messaggio biblico , May - July 1998, p. 20 ( recto illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall , February - May 2000, p. 35 ( recto illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall: From Russia to Paris, Drawings and Watercolors 1906-1967 , January - March 2002, p. 19 ( recto illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Chagall: Colour and Music , January - June 2017, no. 496, p. 402 ( recto illustrated; titled "In front of the House Where He Was Born").
M. Chagall, Marc Chagall, My Life , London, 1989, p. 9 ( recto illustrated).
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Devant la maison natale (recto); Esquisse de nu (verso)
signed and dated "Chagall 1908" ( recto ; lower right)
pen and India ink on paper ( recto ); pencil on paper ( verso )
6 ¼ x 5 ¾ in. (15.8 x 14.6 cm.)
Executed in 1914 ( recto ); drawn in 1911 ( verso )
