
Art Institute of Chicago
The Angel and the Reader
Marc Chagall · c. 1930
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by James Vigeveno Gallery, Los Angeles, to the Art Institute, 1941.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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