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Marc Chagall
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Marc Chagall
- L'ASSIETTE ROUGE OU LE COUPLE ET L'ÂNE
Signed Chagall (bottom right); also countersigned, dated 1953 and stamped Madoura Plein Feu on the reverse
- Glazed ceramic dish
- Diameter: 13 3/4 in.
- 34.5 cm
Provenance
Estate of the Artist
Bouquinerie de l'Institut, France (acquired from the above)
Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach (acquired from the above)
Andrew Weiss Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1999)
Bouquinerie de l'Institut, France (acquired from the above)
Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach (acquired from the above)
Andrew Weiss Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1999)
Literature
André Malraux and Charles Sorlier, The Ceramics and Sculptures of Marc Chagall, Monaco, 1972, no. 109, illustrated p. 125
Catalogue Note
Ceramics form an important part of Chagall's work as he is considered to be one of the greatest artist-craftsman of the 20th century. From 1950, Chagall's ceramics were created in the workshops of various ceramists such as Serge Ramel at Vence and Antibes but most of them were produced in Georges and Suzanne Ramié's Madoura workshop at Vallauris. The art critic Gaston Bachelard praised these first successes in these words: "What wonderful times we live in when the greatest painters yearn to become ceramists and potters. We see them baking colours and creating light with fire. At a stroke Chagall has become a master of this 'devil's painting', an art which goes beyond the surface to reach down to the chemistry of the depths" (André Sauret, Chagall, Ceramics and Sculptures, Monaco, 1972, p. 14).