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Forgotten in French Customs for Decades, a Chagall Finds New Home in Museum Near Swiss Border

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French customs on the border with Switzerland donated an artwork by Marc Chagall to a nearby museum, which it had seized 20 years ago and then forgotten.

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The Acrobat in Violin, dated 1924, was seized in 2006 by the authorities of Franche-Comté on the Swiss border.

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I have been observing how the art market rewards patience, and few stories illustrate it better than that of L’Acrobate au violon, an engraving by Marc Chagall that has just emerged from administrative oblivion. The piece, seized in 2006 by the French customs when two private individuals tried to illegally remove it to Switzerland without export certificates, has remained twenty years in a warehouse, victim of the weight of the bureaucracy. Last…

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Le Figaro broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, July 22, 2026.
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