''Bouquet près de la fenêtre'' (''Bouquet by the Window'') is an
oil on canvas painting by
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...
dated 1959–1960. Franz Meyer, Chagall's biographer (and son-in-law), called it one of Chagall's finest flower paintings.
The lovers in the painting are Chagall and his second wife Valentina Brodsky. His first wife and the great love of his life,
Bella Rosenfeld
Bella Rosenfeld Chagall (russian: link=no, Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал, 15 November 1895, Vitebsk – 2 September 1944, New York State) was a Jewish Belarusian writer and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject o ...
, floats in the upper-left as a ghostly apparition dressed in bridal white. The view in the foreground is of
Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Saint-Paul-de-Vence (, literally ''Saint-Paul of Vence''; oc, Sant Pau de Vença; it, San Paolo di Venza) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. One of the oldest medie ...
, near where Chagall settled the last four decades of his life.
The painting fetched £3,218,500 at a
Christie's
Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie (auctioneer), James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, at Rockefeller Center in New York City and at Alexandra House in Hong Kong. It is ...
auction in
London
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on 23 June 2015.
See also
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List of artworks by Marc Chagall
References
External links
Christie's image (zoomable)
1959 paintings
Paintings by Marc Chagall
Birds in art
Flower paintings
Oil on canvas paintings
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