Ceramic

La Fontaine’s Fables: The Rooster and the Pearl

Le Coq et la Perle

(Fables de La Fontaine : Le Coq et la Perle )

Author: Marc CHAGALL

Numéro catalogue raisonné: C-16
Date de création: 1950
Typology: Dish
Technique: color clay, decorated with oxides on a brown slip, engraved with knife and dry point needle
Dimensions: 8 _7/8 x 7 _5/8 in. (22.5 x 19.3 cm)
Inscription(s): Signed Chagall at the bottom left corner
Stamped Poterie des Remparts, Antibes on the back
Pottery studio: Poterie des Remparts

Owner: Private collection

Keywords:

Animals (rooster)

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Marc CHAGALL, La Fontaine’s Fables: The Rooster and the Pearl (Fables de La Fontaine : Le Coq et la Perle ), 1950, color clay, decorated with oxides on a brown slip, engraved with knife and dry point needle, 8 _7/8 x 7 _5/8 in. (22.5 x 19.3 cm), Private collection © ADAGP, Paris, 2025

Provenance (1)

Private collection

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Exhibitions (2)

Hommage à Marc Chagall, Grand Palais, Paris, France, December 13, 1969 - March 8, 1970
Marc Chagall : Les années méditerranéennes. 1949-1985, Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence, France, July 2, 1994 - October 30, 1994

Publications (6)

Hommage à Marc Chagall, (exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, December 13,1969 - March 8, 1970), Paris, RMN-Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1969, No. 360, p. 264
SORLIER, Charles, MALRAUX, André, Les céramiques et sculptures de Chagall, Monaco, Éditions André Sauret, 1972, No. 82, ill. p. 100
FORESTIER, Sylvie, MEYER, Meret, Chagall e la ceramica, Milan, Jaca Book, 1990, fig. 40, No. 8, ill. p. n. p., p. 14, 155
FORESTIER, Sylvie, MEYER, Meret, Les céramiques de Chagall, Paris, Albin Michel, 1990, fig. 40, No. 8, ill. p. n. p., p. 14, 155
Marc Chagall : Les années méditerranéennes, 1949-1985, (exhibition catalogue, Vence, Fondation Emile Hugues, July 2,1994 - October 30, 1994), Arcueil, Anthèse, 1994, No. 137, ill. p. 131, p. 176
Chagall : Entre ciel et terre, (exhibition catalogue, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, July 6,2007 - November 19, 2007), Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2007, ill. p. 49