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(FILES) In this dated July 02, 1977 filed photo shows famous painter Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Belarus, poses in Nice where an exhibition in honour of his 90th anniversary. Some sketches from a Marc Chagall sketchbook, never shown before, with 85 pages of sketches and 8 pages of the Yiddish translation of a poem on Marc Chagall by his wife Bella. To be auctioned on June 17th in New York, estimated price 600.000-900.000 dollars. AFP PHOTO / FILES