Marc Chagall's Le peintre ailé au chevalier (Winged painter at the easel) is a drawing from 1977 executed for Robert Villiers in a Musee du Louvre catalogue of the artist's recent paintings. The work had been unsold at Christie's Tel Aviv on April 27, 2008 with an estimate of US $35,000 to $45,000, and was again unsold at Sotheby's New York in October 11, 2011 with an estimate of $30,000 to $40,000. Back in 2006, before the collapse of the housing bubble, this piece was sold by Irene Lehr in Berlin for 15,000 euros ($19,213), so the more recent estimates simply may have been too optimistic, particularly given the post-bubble economy.
It is a lovely drawing though. Is Chagall saying that the painter is divinely inspired or is he claiming heavenly status for the painter? One handy payoff for being an artist may be that you get to draw artists with wings.  |
Marc Chagall, Le peintre ailé au chevalet
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Marc Chagall, Le peintre ailé au chevalet
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