L’Ange et la fiancée
1930
"L'Ange et la fiancée" (The Angel and the Bride) is an oil painting by Marc Chagall that exemplifies his distinctive modernist style blending Cubist fragmentation with dreamlike, symbolic imagery drawn from his Jewish heritage and Russian folklore. The composition features his characteristic floating figures and vibrant color palette, with the angel and bride rendered in an ethereal, lyrical manner that suggests themes of love, spirituality, and transcendence. Completed in the early 20th century, the work reflects Chagall's poetic approach to representing human emotion and spiritual experience through formally inventive means.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern Evening Auction
November 19, 2024
Estimate: $3,000,000 – $4,000,000
Lot 133
Spotted works by Marc Chagall
Artists in conversation
Ossip Zadkine
Russian-French · b. 1890
Zadkine shared Chagall's Belarusian Jewish roots and blended Cubist fragmentation with deeply symbolic, spiritual imagery drawn from folklore and religious tradition, producing figurative works with a similarly dreamlike and ethereal quality.
Raoul Dufy
French · b. 1877
Dufy employed vibrant, luminous color palettes and lyrical floating compositions in oil on canvas that evoke a comparable sense of joy, romance, and transcendence found in this angelic and bridal scene by Chagall.
Pavel Tchelitchew
Russian · b. 1898
Tchelitchew created figurative oil paintings suffused with mystical symbolism, ethereal lighting, and a dreamlike modernist sensibility that closely parallels the spiritual and romantic floating figure compositions characteristic of this Chagall work.
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