| Bouquet près de la fenêtre | |
| Other Title 1: | Bouquet by the Window |
| Artist: | Marc Chagall |
| Year: | 1959–1960 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 149.8 |
| Width Metric: | 120 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Private collection |
Bouquet près de la fenêtre (Bouquet by the Window) is an oil on canvas painting by Marc Chagall dated 1959–1960. Franz Meyer, Chagall's biographer (and son-in-law), called it one of Chagall's finest flower paintings.[1]
The lovers in the painting are Chagall and his second wife Valentina Brodsky. His first wife and the great love of his life, Bella Rosenfeld, floats in the upper-left as a ghostly apparition dressed in bridal white. The view in the foreground is of Saint-Paul-de-Vence, near where Chagall settled the last four decades of his life.
The painting fetched £3,218,500 at a Christie's auction in London on 23 June 2015.[2]