Title: Fiancés dans le Ciel de Nice (Lovers in the Sky at Nice)

Artist: Marc Chagall

Portfolio: Nice et la Côte d’Azur (1967) — one of 12 compositions

Medium: Original stone lithograph

Date: 1967

Edition: 87/150

Image Size: 28.5 × 21 in

Framed Size: 35.25 × 28.5 in

Signature: Hand-signed in pencil by the artist and numbered 87/150

Reference:  Sorlier, C. (1984). Chagall Lithographs, Vol. V 1974 - 1979. Crown Publishers: NY. Listed and illustrated as catalog no. CS 36. 

Fiancés dans le Ciel de Nice is one of the most celebrated works from Chagall’s Nice et la Côte d’Azur series — a portfolio of twelve lithographs created in 1967 as a tribute to the sun-drenched city that became his adopted home in later life. Floating lovers, a motif Chagall returned to throughout his career as the ultimate expression of love’s transcendence, drift above the rooftops and light of Nice in a composition that is at once deeply personal and universally moving. Hand-signed and numbered from an edition of 150, this is a significant and highly collectible example of Chagall’s graphic work at its most luminous and lyrical.