The Angel and the Reader

Prints and Drawings

c. 1930

Marc Chagall
French, born Belarus, 1887-1985

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: The Angel and the Reader
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1925–1935
Medium: Gouache with encaustic and oil paint on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in blue and brown gouache: "Chagall / Marc"
Dimensions: 63.6 × 48.8 cm (25 1/16 × 19 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1941.829
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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.

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.

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

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