The Praying Jew

1. Sold through Pierre Loeb (1897–1964), Paris, to Patrick M. Sweeney, New York, 1924 [letter from James Sweeney, Sept. 1, 1975, in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Summer Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, June 7–October 30, 1932.
• Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 80, cat. 725, pl. LXXIV, as Portrait of a Rabbi, n.d.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Centennial Exposition, June 6–November 29, 1936, p. 42, cat. 21, as Portrait of a Rabbi, n.d.
• Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, November 6–December 11, 1938, p. 16, cat. 13 (ill.), as Rabbi, 1914.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, 20th Century Portraits, December 9, 1942–January 24, 1943, pp. 22, 64, and 135, as The Rabbi of Vitebsk, 1914; traveled to the Baltimore Museum of Art, February 12–March 7, 1943, and the Worcester Art Museum, March 24–April 18, 1943.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Marc Chagall, January 2–31, 1945, n.p., cat. 28, as The Rabbi, n.d.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Marc Chagall, April 4–June 23, 1946, pp. 31, 34–35, 53, and 87, cat. 18 (ill.), as The Praying Jew (The Rabbi of Vitebsk), 1914; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, November 14, 1936–January 12, 1947.
• Chicago, Art Institute, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, pp. 5 and 9–10 (ill.), as the Rabbi of Vitebsk, 1914.
• Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Marc Chagall: Peintures 1908–1947, October 17–December 22, 1947, n.p., cat. 19, as Le Rabbin en Priere, n.d.; traveled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, December 8, 1947–January 12, 1948, p. 13, cat. 17, as De rabbijn in gebed, 1914.
• London, Arts Council of Great Britain, organiser, Marc Chagall, p. 7, cat. 18, pl. VIII, as The Praying Jew, 1914; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, February 4–29, 1948.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century European Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 8–November 5, 1949, no cat.
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Biennial Festival of the Arts, Paintings: 1900–1925, February 2–March 4, 1951, n.p., cat. 7, as The Rabbi, 1914.

• Bulletin de l’Effort Moderne 2 (February 1924), n.p. (ill.), as Le vieux rabbin, 1923.
• George, Waldemar, Marc Chagall (Les Peintres Français Nouveaux, 31) (Paris: Gallimard, 1928), p. 43 (ill.), as Rabbin, 1914.
• Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, (Propyläen Verlag: Berlin, 1928) pp. 485 (ill.), 567.
• Art Digest VII:16 (May 15, 1933), p. 25 (ill.), as Rabbi, n.d.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 80, cat. 725, pl. LXXIV, as Portrait of a Rabbi, n.d.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Centennial Exposition, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1936), p. 42, cat. 21, as Portrait of a Rabbi, n.d.
• Toledo Museum of Art, Contemporary Movements in European Painting, exh. cat. (Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Museum of Art, 1938), p. 16, cat. 13 (ill.), as Rabbi, 1914.
• The Jewish Layman XVI:5 (January 1942), p. 8 (ill.), as Rabbi, n.d.
• “The Rabbi—Marc Chagall,” Daily News (July 11, 1942), p. 21 (ill.), as The Rabbi, n.d.
• Museum of Modern Art, 20th Century Portraits, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), pp. 22, 64, and 135, as The Rabbi of Vitebsk, 1914.
• Arts Club, Marc Chagall, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1945), n.p., cat. 28, as The Rabbi, n.d.
• “Marc Chagall,” Emporium CIV:623–624 (November–December 1946), p. 208 (ill.), as Rabbino, 1914.

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