Collection of the artist. ~Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California. ~~This work is sold with a replacement photo-certificate of authenticity from the Comité Chagall.~~Just as they are confined within a grandfather clock, so are the newly married couple in Les mariés dans l'horloge au coq happily enveloped in their love for each other. Their happiness is further articulated by the huge bouquet of flowers which flies through the sky with them, soaring over the rooftops of Chagall's childhood memory and formed by splashes of bright colour which stand out against the otherwise sombre background of yellow and black. A symbol of life and affluence, Chagall claimed that there was also a spiritual element to his exuberant posies: 'there lies in the flowers I paint a subtle spell which makes them akin to the flowers of God.' (Chagall, quoted in M. Bohm-Duchen, Chagall, London, 2011, p.195).