- Artist or Maker
- Marc Chagall
Belarus, active France, 1887-1985 - Title
- Violinist on a Bench
- Date Made
- 1924/1925
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
- Accession Number
- 64.6
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Provenance
The artist (1887-1985). [Galerie Katia Granoff by 1928.] Sold to John McLane (1898-1960) around 1947, possibly through [Dalzell Hatfield Gallery] [1]; by inheritance to Mary Day McLane; given in 1964 to LACMA.
[1]: This information is drawn from a letter from the Reverend James McLane to Marc Chagall, February 10, 1948, AMIC-2A-0092-023, Archives Marc et Ida Chagall, Paris. This letter establishes how the work likely came to Southern California, as it mentions a “Los Angeles dealer whose wife acquired this picture last summer from Holland through Jewish friends of theirs.” Out of a handful of Los Angeles dealers selling modern European art at the time, it is very likely that the painting came through Dalzell Hatfield, whose wife, Ruth Hatfield, was very involved in the family business.
- Selected Bibliography
- Meyer, Franz. Marc Chagall: Life and Work. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1964.
