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Modern | April 22, 2025

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From Modernists in Latin America, such as Omar Rayo and Manuel Felguerez, to representations of the early work of Thomas Downing, Gordon Onslow Ford, the Modern sale offers paintings, sculpture, and multiples from estates and fine collections. Other names to drop? Ernest Trova, Larry Rivers, Maud Gatewood, Nicolo Simbari, Werner Scholz, Tony Hernandez, Mary Whyte, and Mark Beard, Peter Roux, Bruce Brainard, Paul Vincent, important multiples by Jasper Johns, Calder, Chagall, and George Rodrigue, design by Edward Moulthrop, Georg Jensen, and George Nelson. If you love modern, enjoy this sale.
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Lot 122

Marc Chagall, L'Ours et les deux Compagnons

Estimate: $400 - $600
Starting Bid
$200

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(French/Russian, 1887-1985)

Plate 63 from the portfolio Les Fables de la Fontaine,1952, edition from the hand-colored edition of 85, aside from the edition of 200, Maurice Potin and Raymond Haasen, Paris, printer, Teriade, publisher, 1952, drypoint etching with hand-coloring, plate 11-1/2 x 9-3/8 in.; gilt wood frame, 26-1/8 x 23-1/8 x 1-1/8 in.

Provenance: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, C-6116-4, purchased in 1987 (accompanied by original detached label); Estate of Janet Blakeley, Weaverville, North Carolina

Note: This portfolio was commissioned by Ambroise Vollard in 1927 to illustrate Jean de La Fontaine's Fables de La Fontaine. Framed. Reference - Patrick Cramer, Marc Chagall The Illustrated Books Catalogue Raisonne, cat #22. 

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Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, C-6116-4, purchased in 1987 (accompanied by original detached label); Estate of Janet Blakeley, Weaverville, North Carolina

toning, not examined out of frame; frame with abrasions