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L'Acrobate (Acrobat)

© Estate of Marc Chagall / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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© Estate of Marc Chagall / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

Marc Chagall

Belarusian, born Vitebsk, Russia (now Belarus), active in France, 1887-1985

L'Acrobate (Acrobat), 1914

oil on brown paper mounted on canvas

support: 16 3/4 x 13 inches (42.54 x 33.02 cm); framed: 22 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (56.515 x 46.99 x 6.35 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1941

RCA1941:25

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Inscriptions

signature / lower left / Chagall 1914

Provenance

from the artist to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1941;
purchased from Matisse Gallery by the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1941

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Oil painting (visual work)

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