2981 Chagall, provisionally designated , is a Themistian asteroid from the asteroid belt, discovered on 2 March 1981 by American astronomer Schelte Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia.
The asteroid was named after the Russian-French painter Marc Chagall (1887–1985).
References
Behrend, R. (2005) Observatoire de Geneve web site, http://obswww.unige.ch/~behrend/page_cou.html
External links Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books