CHAGALL, MARC (Vitebsk 1887-1985 Saint-Paul de Vence), washed / watercoloured ink drawing: "Couple in front of the house" (ink, pen, brush) on ivory paper, mounted on cardboard at the upper edge, signed lower right "Marc Chagall". Sheet size approx. 31.8 x 23.8 cm. A closely related couple under a night sky with a crescent moon in front of the garden gate of a house, depicted in diagonal composition. Cf. to the motif 'Couple with houses and crescent moon' in similar conception " The Lovers" (WVZ Mourlot no. 50, p. 79) or couple with comparable architecture "Lovers above the city" ( WVZ Mourlot no. 24, p. 14) and also the sheets " The Walk II" (WVZ Kornfeld 26 II) and "Before the Gate" (WVZ Kornfeld, vol. I, 14), both from the series of etchings "My Life" from 1922, published by Paul Cassirer in Berlin in 1923. From the estate of a Westphalian private collection with further works by the artist (among others "Derrière le Miror", special issue "Paris" with 11 original lithographs. Paris, Maeght 1954 or book "Psaumes de David" with 30 original etchings. Ed. Gérald Cramer, Geneva 1979). According to information of the heirs acquired in the former Galerie van Almsick in Gronau Epe, with whom friendly relations existed. Back cover with labels of this gallery (Sheet partially minimally stained).