Mirror of love to reflect buyers` desires
Marc Chagall?s Mirror will go under the hammer at the Impressionist, Modern Art and Russian Art sale framed by the Sotheby`s auction house.
ґThe charming early gouache, Le Miroir, was painted around 1911 when the then 24-year-old Russian-born genius painter was settling into Paris.
Valued at US$120,000, the painting is said to be a version of the Venus and Adonis composition by Veronese in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
Paolo Veronese was one of Chagall`s favorite artists whom he discovered at the Louvre which, according to his diary, was a powerful magnet that had kept him in Paris forever.
Apart from art, love was a major inspiration for the unconventional artist. His wife of 29 years, Bella Rosenfeld, whom he met in his native Vitebsk, remained Chagall`s only muse even long after her death, throughout Chagall`s long life of 97 years.
Among other masterpieces by Russian painters to be featured at the auction on October 11 will be works by David Burliuk, including his exceptional, large scale and life-enhancing painting Snow Bound, valued at $90,000.
Sotheby`s will also put on sale a selection of works on paper by such luminaries as Pavel Tchelitchew, Natalia Goncharova, Alexandre Benois and Sergei Soudeikine.
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