Marc CHAGALL exhibits around ten drawings at the Rijeka museum in Croatia.

Marc CHAGALL (1887.1985)

Typed letter signed to the art critic Pierre Descargues.

A page in-4° on letterhead from La Colline à St Paul de Vence.

Two file holes in the left margin.

St Paul de Vence. February 6, 1974.

Chagall is honored to be asked for the international exhibition of original drawings at the Modern Gallery in Rijeka, Croatia.

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“Dear Sir, I have received your letter for which I thank you.  I am very touched by the tribute that people want to pay me on the occasion of the exhibition in Rijeka (Yugoslavia), by exhibiting around ten of my drawings. Of course, I completely agree in principle. Unfortunately, due to my many occupations, it is not possible for me to deal with loan issues. Please, therefore, please contact Galerie Maeght , 13, rue de Téhéran, Paris (8°). I will also tell him about your project and ask him to help you realize it. Please accept, dear Sir, the assurance of my best feelings. Marc Chagall. »

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The international exhibition of original drawings was created in 1968 and held at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka. The museum founded in 1948 under the name “Gallery of Fine Arts” was renamed in 1962 to “Modern Gallery”. In independent Croatia, in 1999, it took a new name and became the “Modern Gallery of Rijeka – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art”.