Ceramic

Two Faces

(Les Deux Visages)

Marc CHAGALL

No. C-86
1951
Dish
grog, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze
15 _1/4 x 9 _13/16 x 1 _7/8 in. (38.8 x 25 x 4.8 cm)
Signed Chagall and dated 1951 on the back

Private collection

Keywords:

Love (couple / lovers)

Marc CHAGALL, Two Faces (Les Deux Visages), 1951, grog, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze, 15 _1/4 x 9 _13/16 x 1 _7/8 in. (38.8 x 25 x 4.8 cm), Private collection © Fabrice GOUSSET/ADAGP, Paris, 2025
Marc CHAGALL, Two Faces (Les Deux Visages), 1951, grog, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze, 15 _1/4 x 9 _13/16 x 1 _7/8 in. (38.8 x 25 x 4.8 cm), Private collection © Fabrice GOUSSET, Fabrice Gousset/ADAGP, Paris, 2025
Marc CHAGALL, Two Faces (Les Deux Visages), 1951, grog, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze, 15 _1/4 x 9 _13/16 x 1 _7/8 in. (38.8 x 25 x 4.8 cm), Private collection © Fabrice GOUSSET, Fabrice Gousset/ADAGP, Paris, 2025

Provenance (1)

Private collection

Archive

Exhibitions (13)

Marc Chagall : Céramiques, sculptures et Les Fables de La Fontaine, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France, March 21, 1952 - April 20, 1952
L'Opera di Marc Chagall : Dipinti - Guazzi - Acquarelli - Disegni - Sculture - Ceramiche - Incisioni, Museo Civico Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy, avril 1953 - juin 1953
Marc Chagall : 1950-1956, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland, October 27, 1956 - November 29, 1956
Marc Chagall : Werke van latere jaren / L'œuvre des dernières années, December 7, 1956 - February 24, 1957
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 7, 1956 - January 14, 1957
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, January 19, 1957 - February 24, 1957
Marc Chagall : Peintures, œuvres sur papier et céramiques, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris, France, April 30, 2003 - June 30, 2003
Marc Chagall : Meisterwerke seiner Keramik, Stadthalle Balingen, Balingen, Germany, June 21, 2003 - September 28, 2003
La terre est si lumineuse : Marc Chagall et la céramique, June 30, 2007 - May 25, 2008
- Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, Vallauris, France, June 30, 2007 - September 30, 2007
- La Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, France, October 19, 2007 - January 20, 2008
- Musée d'art moderne de Céret, Céret, France, February 16, 2008 - May 25, 2008
Chagall e il Mediterraneo, Palazzo Blu, Pise, Italy, October 9, 2009 - January 16, 2010
Chagall: Beyond Color, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States Of America, February 17, 2013 - May 26, 2013
Chagall : De la poésie à la peinture, Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la culture, Landerneau, France, June 26, 2016 - November 1, 2016

Publications (17)

L'Opera di Marc Chagall : Dipinti - Guazzi - Acquarelli - Disegni - Sculture - Ceramiche - Incisioni, (exhibition catalogue, Turin, Museo Civico Palazzo Madama, avril 1953 - juin 1953), Turin, Museo Civico Palazzo Madama, 1953, No. 295, ill. p. n. p., p. 61
Marc Chagall : 1950-1956, (exhibition catalogue, Berne, Kunsthalle Bern, October 27,1956 - November 29, 1956), Berne, Kunsthalle Bern, 1956, No. 113
Marc Chagall : Werke van latere jaren, (exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, December 7, 1956 - January 14, 1957 ; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, January 19, 1957 - February 24, 1957), Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1956
Vrienden van de nederlandse ceramiek : Bulletin de l'Association néerlandaise des amis de la céramique, No. 7, 1957, No. 15, ill. p. 16
Chagall. L'œuvre des dernières années, (exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, January 19, 1957 - February 24, 1957), Brussels, Bruxelles La Conti, 1957, No. 309
Marc Chagall (Munich), (exhibition catalogue, Munich, Haus der Kunst, April 7, 1959 - May 31, 1959), Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1959, No. 278a, p. 50
SORLIER, Charles, MALRAUX, André, Les céramiques et sculptures de Chagall, Monaco, Éditions André Sauret, 1972, No. 212, ill. p. 238
FORESTIER, Sylvie, MEYER, Meret, Chagall e la ceramica, Milan, Jaca Book, 1990, fig. 124, No. 58, ill. p. n. p., p. 18, 160
FORESTIER, Sylvie, MEYER, Meret, Les céramiques de Chagall, Paris, Albin Michel, 1990, fig. 124, No. 58, ill. p. n. p., p. 18, 160
Marc Chagall : Ceramic Masterpieces, (exhibition catalogue, Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, June 21,2003 - September 28, 2003), Münich, Prestel Verlag, 2003, No. 34, ill. p. 71, p. 10
Marc Chagall : Peintures, œuvres sur papier et céramiques, (exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, April 30,2003 - June 30, 2003), Paris, Galerie Fabien Boulakia, 2003, ill. p. 61, p. 60, 75
Marc Chagall : Meisterwerke seiner Keramik, (exhibition catalogue, Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, June 21,2003 - September 28, 2003), Münich, Prestel Verlag, 2003, No. 34, ill. p. 71, p. 10
La terre est si lumineuse : Marc Chagall et la céramique, (exhibition catalogue, Vallauris, Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, June 30, 2007 - September 30, 2007 ; Roubaix, La Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent, October 19, 2007 - January 20, 2008 ; Céret, Musée d'art moderne de Céret, February 16, 2008 - May 25, 2008), Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2007, No. 55, ill. p. 81, p. 78, 118, 181
Marc Chagall e il Mediterraneo, (exhibition catalogue, Pise, Palazzo Blu, October 9,2009 - January 16, 2010), Florence, Giunti, 2009, ill. p. 100
Chagall : Beyond Color, (exhibition catalogue, Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, February 17,2013 - May 26, 2013), Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 2013, No. 80, ill. p. 37
Chagall : De la poésie à la peinture, (exhibition catalogue, Landerneau, Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la culture, June 26,2016 - November 1, 2016), Landerneau, Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la culture, 2016, ill. p. 164 (détail)
Marc Chagall et les revues d'art. De couleur et d'encre, Dir. GAUTHIER, Ambre, (exhibition catalogue, Nice, Musée national Marc Chagall, October 10,2020 - April 26, 2021), Paris, RMN-Réunion des Musées nationaux, 2020, fig. 6, ill. p. 17