Lot #1161: MARC CHAGALL - Les amoureux - Mixed media on paper

 

Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887 - 1985).
Title: "Les amoureux".
Medium: Mixed media on paper.
Date: Composed 1953.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (298 x 216 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower left. Thick cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition; a few erase marks on the verso, not visible recto; very minor thumbtack marks visible in each corner, recto, else fine. The composition was created using watercolor, wax crayon, and ink. Provenance: Ex-collection Seymour Hacker, Hacker Art Books, New York City. Comment(s): A work by Chagall, ‘Amoureux dans bouquet rouge,’ similar to our example in size, medium, year, and subject matter, sold for $116,500 at Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center, November 8, 2012, lot #209. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York City. [30091-2-30000]