Marc Chagall I and the Village 1911
- MoMA, Floor 5, 503 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 6' 3 5/8" x 59 5/8" (192.1 x 151.4 cm)
- Credit
- Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
- Object number
- 146.1945
- Copyright
- © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Marc Chagall has 231 works online.
- There are 2,456 paintings online.
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Painting, Sculpture, Prints
May 24–Oct 15, 1944
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946
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Marc Chagall
Apr 9–Jun 23, 1946
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Large-Scale Modern Paintings
Apr 1–May 4, 1947
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Teaching Materials for N.Y.C. Public High Schools
Jun 7–Jul 20, 1949
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Human Quality in Creative Experience
Mar 20–Apr 20, 1952
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Art in a Changing World: 1884–1964: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
May 27, 1964
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Permanent Collection
Mar 29, 1972–Apr 21, 1980
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Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
Oct 25, 1980–Jan 27, 1981
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Masterpieces from the Collection
Mar 2, 1982–Mar 1, 1983
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Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Dec 1, 1983–Jan 3, 1984
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
May 17, 1984–Aug 4, 1992
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Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
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Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Jul 1, 1993
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Painting &
Sculpture II Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
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506: Henri Matisse
Ongoing
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504: New Expression in Germany and Austria
Oct 21, 2019–Jun 25, 2023
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506: Henri Matisse
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505: Circa 1913
Oct 21, 2019–Feb 27, 2024
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505: Circa 1913
Oct 21, 2019–Feb 27, 2024
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505: Circa 1913
Oct 21, 2019–Feb 27, 2024
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
Acquired by Nell Walden (1887-1975), Berlin, 1916 [1]; returned to Marc Chagall, Paris, 1926 [2]; purchased from the artist by René Gaffé, Brussels, February 22, 1926 [3]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 13, 1945.
[1] Karoline Hille, Marc Chagall und das deutsche Publikum, Cologne: Böhlau, 2005, p. 55, p. 271, no. 15. Included in Chagall's solo exhibition at Herwarth Walden's Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, [May/June] 1914. Herwarth Walden, Expressionismus: Die Kunstwende, Berlin: Der Sturm, 1918, p. 21.
[2] See letter Nell Walden, Schinznach to James Johnson Sweeney, New York, November 14, 1946, Collection files, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
[3] Reproduced in René Gaffé, "Réflexions d'un collectionneur," Cahiers de Belgique, vol. 2, no. 2 (February 1929), p. 60. Included in the exhibition Art In Our Time: 10th Anniversary Exhibiton, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10-September 30, 1939, no. 184. On extended loan from Gaffé to The Museum of Modern Art, New York during the war.
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