Oil or gouache on cardboard. 66.5 X 49 (Tetriakov Gallery TR144). Signed: “Marc Chagall” (signature added later). Acquired through R. Falk from the widow of the art historian A. G. Romm. Chagall worked with Romm in Vitebsk in 1917-19. This work dated from the period when Chagall was studying with Y. Pen in Vitebsk.
Study
for “rain”,1911
Gouache on cardboard. 22.5 X 30 (Tetriakov Gallery TR147). Signed:”Marc Chagall”. Acquired from the collection of I. Viner, an art critic and specailist on
painting media and conservation. The painting for which this is the study is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice. It is signed and dated 1911.
Musicians,
1911
Gouche. 18.8 X 18.5 (Tetriakov Gallery TR 148). Signed:”Chagall.” Acquired from N. E. Dobychina, who had an art gallery in Petrograd.