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Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine
Russian/French, 1893 - 1943
Les Gorges du Loup (La Maison Hantée) IV, circa 1921
Oil on canvas
28½ x 23 inches / 72.4 x 59.4 cm
Signed lower right: Soutine
Signed again lower left: Soutine
Russian-born Jewish painter Chaïm
Soutine is best known for his
contribution to the Expressionist and
Fauvist movements in Paris during
the early Twentieth Century. Painted
in about 1921 the present work
sums up Soutine’s characteristic
intensity through a swirling impasto,
which distorts the perspective of the
Gorges and allows the viewer to
experience the artist’s subjectivity. An
acknowledged master of twentiethcentury painting, Soutine’s influence
can be felt in the work of artists such
as Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and
Francis Bacon.
Provenance
The Barnes Foundation, Merion Station, Pennsylvania
(acquired by Dr Barnes in 1923)
Carstairs Gallery, New York
E&R Cyzer, London
Private collection, UK
Exhibited
Tokyo, Galerie Yoshii, Chaïm Soutine, 1973, no. 10, illustrated in colour
Tokyo, Galerie Yoshii, Chaïm Soutine, 1974, no. 7
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Soutine/Bacon, May-June 2011
Literature
P. Courthion, Soutine, Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p.224, fig. D,
illustrated, p.225
Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow will include this painting in the
forthcoming supplement to their Soutine Catalogue Raisonné
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Soutine/Bacon, May-June 2011,
p.88, illustrated in colour p. 89
"I never touched Cubism myself, you know, although I was attracted
to it at one time. When I was painting at Céret and at Cagnes I
yielded to its influence in spite of myself, and the results were not
entirely banal. But Céret itself is anything but banal. There is so much
foreshortening in the landscape that, for that very reason, a picture
may seem to have been painted in some specific style."
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