About This Artwork

Marc Chagall
French, born Belarus, 1887-1985

The Angel and the Reader, c. 1930

Gouache, with encaustic and oil paint on cream wove paper
636 x 488 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in blue and brown gouache: "Chagall / Marc"
Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, 1941.829

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, “20th International Exhibition of Watercolors,” July 17-October 2, 1941, no. 108.

Chicago, Arts Club, "Marc Chagall," January 2–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 29.

American Federation for the Arts, March 19, 1952-February 22, 1953.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 163.

Chicago, The Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica, "Jewish Artists of the Twentieth Century," October 5, 1975–January 30, 1976, n.p., cat. 12.

Chicago, Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica, "Chagall in Chicago," April 22–July 1, 1979, n.p., cat. 6 (ill.), dated 1937–39.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors cat.

Publication History

Franz Meyer, Marc Chagall: Leben und Werk (Cologne, 1961), pp. 756, no. 664 (ill.).

Peter Hastings Falk (editor), The Annual Exhibition Record of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1888-1950 (Madison, Conn., 1990), p. 197.

Ownership History

Sold by James Vigeveno Gallery, Los Angeles, to the Art Institute, 1941.