"Rêverie" exemplifies Chagall’s poetic, dreamlike style. Fantasy and reality blend in a symphony of color as the artist transforms a traditional still life into a scene brimming with memory and dream, populating the composition with figures and objects that repeat throughout his career: a goat, a shepherd, a bouquet of flowers, a vase, a pair of embracing lovers, a village, and a fiddler who levitates upside down. Chagall painted this watercolor in 1971 at his studio, La Colline, in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

The artist; Aug. 25, 1973, to
Pierre Matisse Gallery (#258), New York; [Oct. 24, 1973, consigned to
Galerie Internationale/Nahmad, Milan, Italy]; 1973 or 1974 to
Galerie d’Art, Saint Paul de Vence; 1974 to
Sir Douglas Myer, Auckland, New Zealand;
By descent to the present