Signed lower right Marc Chagall
On the reverse: signed, located and dated: Marc 1948 Chagall Vence 1952, annotated in Russian: петух, бабочки, цветы, мак, хром, жëлтый, крас., роз., ли. (trans.: rooster, butterfly, flowers, poppy, chrome, yellow, red, pink, purple)
Oil on canvas
99 x 73 cm (39 x 29 in.)
Painted between 1948 and 1952.
Provenance :
& Mrs. Frederic Mann, Philadelphia, PA
Jacques Lindon, New York
Knoedler & Co., New York
Private collection US (Acquired from the above in 1965)
Sotheby’s New York (Private treaty sale, May 2000)
Private collection, USA (From the above)
Exhibited :
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects 20th century, October 3 – November 17, 1963; catalogue, p. 10.
Filmography :
François Lévy-Kuentz, Chagall, à la Russie aux ânes et aux autres, Paris, Doriane films, 2003, ill.
With a certificate from the Marc Chagall Comitée n° 2013067 signed by Jean-Louis Prat and dated June 5, 2018.