Three rare paintings by Chagall auctioned

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Three rare paintings by Chagall auctioned

Three rare paintings of Marc Chagall auctioned Sotheby's, according to the website auction house. These paintings depict the interiors of three different synagogues.

Rarity makes paintings that Chagall is known from only six finished oil paintings depicting the synagogues or their interiors. In total, three paintings valued at $ 1.6 million . The most expensive , according to preliminary estimates, can be sold for an amount of 400 to 600 thousand dollars.

As the Associated Press reports quoting the press release the auction house , the paintings never before exhibited in the auction . They sell a descendant of the collector Kottina Max , who bought the paintings in the exhibition in 1945.

Chagall paintings to be sold at an auction of Israeli and international art in New York , scheduled for December 14.

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