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''Bouquet près de la fenêtre'' (''Bouquet by the Window'') is an
oil on canvas Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or copper for several centuries. ...
painting by
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian and French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with the School of Paris, École de Paris, as well as several major art movement, artistic styles and created ...
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 (, ) (14 December 1889 – 2 September 1944) was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall. She was the subject of many of Chagall's paintings i ...
, 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''; ; ) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. One of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera, Saint-Pau ...
, 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, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Geneva, Shan ...
auction in
London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
on 23 June 2015.


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List of artworks by Marc Chagall This article lists artworks produced by Marc Chagall (6 July ld Style and New Style dates, O.S. 24 June1887 – 28 March 1985), a Painting, painter who is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. The listing follows marcchagal ...


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