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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 | 477 | $****** - ****** | Le village ou Le mirage des pains ou La boutique |
Works on Paper
19.1 x 22.2 cm (7.5 x 8.75 in)
gouache, watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper
signed ‘Chagall" (lower left)
Nell Walden, Switzerland.
Dr René Schlesinger, Zurich, by 1959.
Acquired by the family of the present owner, by 1963.
(Possibly) Bern, Kunstmuseum, Gemälde und Zeichnungen alter Meister, Kunsthandwerk aus Privatbesitz: Der Sturm, Sammlung Nell Walden aus den Jahren 1912-1920 , October 1944 - March 1945, no. 269, p. 53 (titled "Landschaft"; with incorrect medium).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Marc Chagall , April - May 1959, no. 187a, p. 44 (titled "Das Dorf oder das Brotwunder"; with incorrect medium and inverted dimensions).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Chagall , May - July 1967, no. 184, p. 37 (with incorrect medium and cataloguing).
Cologne, Kunsthalle, Marc Chagall: Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten , September - October 1967, no. 17, p. 25 (with incorrect medium).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Marc Chagall, Work on Paper/ Selected Masterpieces , June - September 1975, no. 1, pp. 12 & 72 (illustrated p. 12; with incorrect medium).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Marc Chagall, November 1984 - February 1985, no. 10, n.p. (with incorrect medium).
Balingen, Stadthalle, Marc Chagall zum 100. Geburtstag: Gouachen und Aquarelle, June - August 1987, p. 84 (illustrated p. 85; with incorrect medium and inverted dimensions).
Tel-Aviv, Museum, Marc Chagall: 100th Anniversary of His Birth, November 1987 - March 1988, no. 10, p. 10 (illustrated n.p.; with incorrect medium).
Breda, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst De Beyerd, Chagall, April - June 1989 , p. 100 (illustrated p. 101; with incorrect medium).
Tokyo, Bunkamura Fine Arts Museum, Chagall , October - November 1989; this exhibition later travelled to Ibraki, Kasama Nichido Museum, December 1989 - January 1990; and Nagoya, City Art Museum, January - March 1990 (ex. cat.).
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Marc Chagall: The Russian Years, 1906-1922, June - September 1991, no. 23, p. 389 (with incorrect medium).
Salzburg, Landessammlungen Rupertinum, Marc Chagall , April - May 1992, pp. 58 & 159 (illustrated p. 59; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to Graz, Kulturhaus der Stadt, May - July 1992.
Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Marc Chagall , March - June 1994, no. 11, p. 58 (illustrated p. 59; with incorrect medium).
Paris, Musée d"art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Marc Chagall: Les années russes, 1907-1922, April - September 1995, no. 35, pp. 264 & 265 (illustrated p. 70; with incorrect medium).
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Marc Chagall 1907-1917, December 1995 - February 1996, no. 107, p. 124 (illustrated; with incorrect medium); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Jewish Museum, The Young Chagall 1907-1917 , March - August 1996; and Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, September 1996 - January 1997.
F. Meyer, Marc Chagall, Life and Work , New York, 1964, no. 117, pp. 116-117 & 740 (illustrated p. 117; with incorrect medium and inverted dimensions).
W. Schmalenbach & C. Sorlier , Marc Chagall, Paris, 1979, p. 35 (illustrated; with incorrect medium and inverted dimensions).
Pan, Munich, July 1987, p. 93 (illustrated).
A. Kagan, Marc Chagall , New York, 1989, no. 17, p. 25 (illustrated p. 24; with incorrect medium).
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985)
Le village ou Le mirage des pains ou La boutique
signed ‘Chagall" (lower left)
gouache, watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper
7 ½ x 8 ¾ in. (19.2 x 22.1 cm.)
Executed in 1911
