Chagall engraving seized at French- Swiss border finally on display after 20 years in storage

Forgotten for twenty years in a customs warehouse, an engraving by Marc Chagall has finally found its place in a French museum. “The Acrobat with the Violin”, created in 1924, will be on display from September at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Besançon. The story dates back to 2006, when the French authorities intercepted a lorry carrying several works of art near the Swiss border. Among them were the Chagall engraving and a drawing produced in 1959 by the sculptor and painter Ossip Zadkine. The…