09-11-200909-12-2009
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2470Boston
September 11, 2009 12:00 PMCalender
776

Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985) Two Lovers on a Rooster

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$20,027$16,900
Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2470Location: BostonDate / Time: September 11, 2009 12:00PM

Description:

Marc Chagall (French/Russian, 1887-1985)

Two Lovers on a Rooster
Signed "Marc Chagall" l.r.
Ink, graphite, and crayon on laid paper, sheet size 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (19.1 x 13.0 cm),framed.
Condition: Paper-backed, taped along margins verso to backing linen-covered mat, acid burn.

Provenance: Daniel Sickles, Paris, France; Hans Peter Kraus, New York; Estate of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (née Braman) Grasso, Essex, Connecticut.

Literature: [Collection Daniel Sickles] Bibliothèque d'un Amateur, Très Beaux Livres Illustrés Modernes Dans d'Importantes Reliures dont 53 Signées de Pierre Legrain, Exemplaires uniques dont Les Fleurs du Mal Illustrées par Rouault, Deuxieme partie, Paris: Musée Galliéra, 21 May 1963 (no. 265); Kraus, H.P., The Illustrated Book, Catalogue 108, no. 138, 1964.

N.B. The work was one of eight original drawings included in a presentation copy of Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux by Ambroise Vollard, published by Éditions Albin Michel in 1937, which was pen inscribed and gifted to his chauffeur Marcel Z. Méraud (see lot 777 for two letters in the Archives Matisse from Marcel Z. Méraud regarding the circumstances of Vollard's gift).
Estimate $40,000-60,000

Fox marks to the l.l. quadrant, subtle toning.

Keywords

Hans Peter Kraus, Marc Chagall, Daniel Sickles, Paris, Essex, France, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Connecticut, Pierre Legrain, chauffeur, Albin Michel