Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Vase de fleurs et personnages

Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
Vase de fleurs et personnages
signed and dated 'Marc Chagall 928' (lower right)
oil on canvas
45 7/8 x 35 in. (116.6 x 88.9 cm.)
Painted in 1928

Provenance
M. Bellier, Paris.
Private collection, Paris (by 1964).
Anon. sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 10 December 1969, lot 66.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, April 1981.

Pre-Lot Text
Property from the Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass

Literature
F. Meyer, Chagall, New York, 1964, p. 754, no. 510 (illustrated).
R. Nacenta, Ecole de Paris: son histoire, son e´poque, Neuchatel, 1970, p. 120 (illustrated in color, p. 121).

Exhibited
Paris, Vendôme, Chagall, 1944-1945.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1957.
Rêve et poésie ou la joie de peindre, June 1955.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Chagall, May-July 1967, p. 28, no. 89.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Marc Chagall: Werke aus sechs Jahzehnten, September-October 1967, p. 36, no. 101 (illustrated, pl. 64).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass, March-May 2015, p. 10, no. 4 (illustrated in color, p. 11; titled Vase of Flowers and Figures and dated circa 1928).