An Artist at the Easel with a Female Nude and a Horse-Man

published 1973, drawing dated 1974

Marc Chagall

Associated Names
Marc Chagall

Artist, Russian, 1887 - 1985

The image features abstract lines and shapes, including a reclining figure holding a boxy object, dome-like curves with a vase, abstract profiles of faces, and a large circular shape with wavy lines. The image includes the bold text "CHAGALL MONUMENTAL" and handwritten text referencing Marc Chagall's style.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 1 drawing in pen and black ink with pastel on title-page and 1 lithograph tipped in before title

  • Credit Line

    The John U. and Evelyn S. Nef Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 31 x 47.8 cm (12 3/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
    book: 31.8 x 25 x 2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 x 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.60.97

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mourlot 1960, no. 699

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Evelyn Nef, Washington, D.C.; bequest to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1960

  • Mourlot, Fernand and Charles Sorlier. The Lithographs of Chagall 1960-1986. vol. 4. Monte-Carlo, 1974: 163, no. 699.

Inscriptions

black pen on title-page upper right: Pour . Les / Nef; across bottom: amicalement / et vava / Marc Chagall (underlined) 1974

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