Bouquet près de la fenêtre

Bouquet près de la fenêtre
Bouquet by the Window
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

  1. ↑ Meyer, Franz (1964). Marc Chagall. London: Harry N Abrams. p. 594. ISBN 978-0810900554.
  2. 1 2 "Sale 10334 Lot 18". christies.com. Christie's.



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