Snow-covered Church

Marc Chagall Russian, 1887-1985
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About the Artwork

During the winter of 1927–28, Marc Chagall — together with his wife and daughter — visited the French alpine town of Chamonix. With intense colors, he captured the deep blue of the sky and the bright light on the snow. The small church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste is in the village of Les Houches, near Chamonix.

Snow-covered Church

between 1927 and 1928

Marc Chagall

1887-1985

Russian

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Gouache and graphite pencil on wove paper

Sheet: 26 1/2 × 20 1/4 inches (67.3 × 51.4 cm) Framed: 33 × 27 × 1 3/8 inches (83.8 × 68.6 × 3.5 cm)

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Founders Society Purchase with funds from The Friends of Modern Art

31.61

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Signed, lower right: Marc Chagall

Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right edge: [illegible three word inscription]

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1931-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Expressionism 1900-1955. Exh. cat., Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, 1956, (ill.).

"Family Art Game." DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press, June 4, 1978, p. 15 (ill.).

Finch, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 231 (p.l 282).

Marc Chagall. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle. Hamburg, 1959, no. 217 (dated as 1924/25).

Marc Chagall. Exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1975, p. 73, no. 28 (ill.).

Marc Chagall Exhibition. Exh. cat., National Museum of European Art. Tokyo, 1963, no. 150 (ill.).

Meyer, F. Marc Chagall, Leben Und Werke. Cologne, 1961, pp. 366, 754, no. 519 (dated as 1928/ 29).

Werner, A. Chagall Watercolors and Gouaches. New York, 1970, pp. 44-45 (color pl. 12.)

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Marc Chagall, Snow-covered Church, between 1927 and 1928, gouache and graphite pencil on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from The Friends of Modern Art, 31.61.

Snow-covered Church
Snow-covered Church