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MARC CHAGALL (FRENCH 1887-1885)NU AU COLLIERPencil Signed (lower right)33 x 22cm (12 x 8½ in.)Drawn circa 1925. Provenance:David McNeil (the artist's son), Paris, by descent from the artist (his no. D 1163)Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1987)Sale, Christie's, London, 8 February 2007, lot 588Purchased from the above sale by the present ownerLiterature:V. Rakitin, Chagall, Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, Milan, 1989, p. 102 (ill. p. 103)Exhibited:Milan, Studio Marconi, Marc Chagall Disegni inediti dalla Russia a Parigi, May - July 1988; this exhibition later travelled to Turin, Galleria della Sindone, Palazzo Reale, Dec. 1990 - Mar. 1991; Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini, Oct. - Nov 1994; Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June - Aug. 1996.1994; Meina, Museo e centro studi per il disegno, June - Aug. 1996Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Marc Chagall "Himmel und Erde", Dec. 1996 - Feb. 1997Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marc Chagall Von Russland nach Paris, Zeichnungen 1906-1967, Dec. 1997 - Jan. 1998Abbazia Olivetana, Fondazione Ambrosetti, Marc Chagall Il messaggio biblico, May - July 1998Klagenfurt, Stadtgalerie, Marc Chagall Feb. - May 2000, p. 50 (ill.)Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chagall, Jan. - Mar. 2002