Water Carrier by Moonlight

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in brown ink): Chagall 911; signed (lower left): Chagall

Herwarth Walden, Berlin (until 1922; sold in September 1922 to Thayer); Scofield Thayer, Vienna and New York (1922–d. 1982; on extended loan to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., as part of the Dial Collection, 1936–82; his bequest to MMA)

Art Institute of Chicago. "Twentieth International Exhibition of Water Colors," July 17–October 5, 1941, no. 126 (as "Man with Pails," lent by Courtesy of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts).

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 11 (as "Water under the Moon").

Waltham, Mass. Brandeis University. "Marc Chagall," May 23–June 15, 1960, no catalogue.

Worcester Art Museum. "Selections from the Dial Collection," November 13–30, 1965, unnum. checklist (as "Water under the Moon").

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial Revisited," June 29–August 22, 1971, no catalogue.

Worcester Art Museum. "'The Dial': Arts and Letters in the 1920s," March 7–May 10, 1981, no. 18 (as "Water Under the Moon").

Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Chagall," October 13–November 26, 1989, no. 8 (as "Porteur d'Eau sous la Lune").

Kasama Nichido Museum. "Chagall," December 2, 1989–January 21, 1990, no. 8.

Nagoya City Art Museum. "Chagall," January 27–March 11, 1990, no. 8.

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. "Marc Chagall: Les années russes, 1907–1922," April 13–September 17, 1995, no. 33 (as "Porteur d'eau sous la lune").

Jewish Museum, New York. "Marc Chagall 1907–1917," March 31–August 4, 1996, no. 105 (as "Water Carrier under the Moon"; erroneously listed in New York checklist insert as "Water Carrier and Coachman").

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Marc Chagall 1907–1917," September 19, 1996–January 5, 1997, no. 105 (as "Water Carrier under the Moon"; listed in Los Angeles checklist insert as "Water Carrier by Moonlight").

Louisa Dresser in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 62, no. 11, ill.

Louisa Dresser. Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar 24 (April 1959), ill. p. 27, calls it "Man with Pails".

Nicholas Joost. Scofield Thayer and The Dial: An Illustrated History. Carbondale, Ill., 1964, ill. between pp. 268 and 269, calls it "Water under the Moon".

Franz Meyer. Marc Chagall. 2nd ed. (1st ed. German, 1961). New York, [1964], pp. 192, 201, 741, ill. p. 210, calls it "Water Carrier with Moon".

Alfred Werner. Chagall Watercolors and Gouaches. New York, 1977, p. 30, colorpl. 5, calls it "Watercarrier Under the Moon".

Alexandre Kamenski. Chagall: Période russe et soviétique, 1907–1922. Paris, 1988, ill. p. 148, calls it "Porteur d'Eau Sous La Lune" and locates it still in the Worcester Art Museum.

Benjamin Harshav in Marc Chagall: Les années russes, 1907–1922. Exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris, 1995, pp. 86, 264, no. 33, ill. p. 87 (color).

Harry Bellet. "Chagall: Années russes 1907–1922. A Vitebsk, à Paris, et ailleurs." Connaissance des arts hors série (1995), pp. 16, 19, fig. 14 (color).

Benjamin Harshav. Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World. New York, 2006, p. 143, no. 84, ill. p. 141 (color).