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Lot 3283 - A215 Impressionist & Modern Art - Friday, 28. November 2025, 04.30 PM

MARC CHAGALL

(Vitebsk 1887–1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence)
Tête et profil ou Deux personnages. 1962.
Plate. Pottery of fireclay, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a blade and dry point, partially glazed. Unique.
Signed lower left: Chagall.
Dated, signed and inscribed verso 1962 / Chagall / Marc / Vallauris.
31.5 × 25.5 × 3 cm.

Certificate:
Comité Marc Chagall, Paris, 15.9.1999.

Provenance:
- Collection of Ida Chagall, Paris.
- Galerie Gmurzynska, Zug.
- Swiss private collection, acquired from the above on 29 June 1999.

Exhibited:
- Cannes 1962, Marc Chagall. Céramiques, Galerie Madoura, August – September 1962, no. 25.
- Paris 1969/70, Hommage à Marc Chagall, Grand Palais, 13 December 1969 – 8 March 1970, no. 410.

Literature:
- Online catalogue raisonné The Archives & Catalogue raisonné Marc Chagall, no. C-338 (https://www.marcchagall.com/en/catalogue-raisonne/ceramic/head-and-profile-or-two-people-1962).
- Charles Sorlier: Les céramiques et sculptures de Chagall, Monaco 1972, p. 229, no. 204 (illustrated).
- Sylvie Forestier AB87and Meret Meyer: Les céramiques de Chagall, Paris 1990, no. 218 (ill. p. 178, no. 57).

CHF 40 000 / 60 000 | (€ 41 240 / 61 860)

Sold for CHF 181 250 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.