Couple

Inscription: Signed and inscribed (lower left, in watercolor): Chagall / Paris

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)

Worcester Art Museum. "The Dial and the Dial Collection," April 30–September 8, 1959, no. 13 (as "Man and Woman").

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

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. 14 (as "Nude Couple").

Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Chagall," October 13–November 26, 1989, no. 7.

Kasama Nichido Museum. "Chagall," December 2, 1989–January 21, 1990, no. 7.

Nagoya City Art Museum. "Chagall," January 27–March 11, 1990, no. 7.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "60 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions," October 23, 1990–January 15, 1991, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings: Additions to the Collection," May 23–September 29, 1991, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Nudes: A Selection from the Bequest of Scofield Thayer," February 12–October 31, 1993, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Couples," December 16, 1994–June 4, 1995, no catalogue (on view through February 21, 1995).

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. "Marc Chagall: Les années russes, 1907–1922," April 13–September 17, 1995, no. 53 (as "Joseph et la femme de Putiphar").

Jewish Museum, New York. "Marc Chagall 1907–1917," March 31–August 4, 1996, not in catalogue (listed in New York checklist insert as "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife").

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Marc Chagall 1907–1917," September 19, 1996–January 5, 1997, not in catalogue (listed in Los Angeles checklist insert as "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895–1950," March 8–December 31, 2000, extended to January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 80; as "Joseph and Potiphar's Wife").

Louisa Dresser in The Dial and the Dial Collection. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Mass., 1959, p. 62, no. 13.

Franz Meyer. Marc Chagall. 2nd ed. (1st ed. German, 1961). New York, [1964], p. 747, Classified Catalogue no. 84, ill. n.p., calls it "Naked Woman Before Bed".

Shotaro Yasuoka et al. Rousseau et Chagall. Ed. Toshio Nishimura. [Tokyo], 1973, p. 113, ill. and colorpl. I, call it "L'Homme et la femme".

Alfred Werner. Chagall Watercolors and Gouaches. New York, 1977, p. 28, colorpl. 4, calls it "Man and Woman" and dates it 1911–12.