Bouquet près de la fenêtre
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Bouquet près de la fenêtre | |
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Bouquet by the Window | |
File:Marc Chagall - Bouquet près de la fenêtre.jpg | |
Artist | Marc Chagall |
Year | 1959–1960 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 149.8 cm × 120 cm (59.0 in × 47 in) |
Location | Private collection |
Bouquet près de la fenêtre (Bouquet by the Window) is an oil on canvas painting by Marc Chagall dated 1959–1960. Franz Meyer , Chagall's biographer (and son-in-law), called it one of Chagall's finest flower paintings.[1]
The lovers in the painting are Chagall and his second wife Valentina Brodsky. His first wife and the great love of his life, Bella Rosenfeld, floats in the upper-left as a ghostly apparition dressed in bridal white. The view in the foreground is of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, near where Chagall settled the last four decades of his life.[2]
The painting fetched £3,218,500 at a Christie's auction in London on 23 June 2015.[2]
References
- ^ Meyer, Franz (1964). Marc Chagall. London: Harry N Abrams. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-8109-0055-4.
- ^ a b "Sale 10334 Lot 18". christies.com. Christie's.