Snow-covered Church, between 1927 and 1928

  • Marc Chagall, Russian, 1887-1985

Gouache and graphite pencil on wove paper

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

Founders Society Purchase with funds from The Friends of Modern Art

31.61

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, lower right: Marc Chagall

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

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

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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.