Chagall Etching Resurfaces After Two Decades in Customs Warehouse

So, there’s this etching by Marc Chagall called L’Acrobate Au Violon from 1924 that’s made a comeback after being taken by customs at the Franco-Swiss border back in 2005. It was forgotten in storage for nearly 20 years! The French authorities had seized it along with a 1959 drawing by Ossip Zadkine while catching two Swiss men trying to smuggle cultural pieces. The Zadkine artwork was given to the Musée Zadkine in Paris, but the Chagall piece is now headed to the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon, France, where it will be showcased starting in September. This is the museum's first Chagall, and it’s part of a limited run of 150. One sold for $5,000 at Christie’s in 2016, although it doesn't compare to Chagall's top auction price of $28.4 million.