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CHAIM SOUTINE (1893-1943) La femme du cordonnier signed “Soutine” (upper right) oil on canvas 86...

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CHAIM SOUTINE (1893-1943) La femme du cordonnier signed “Soutine” (upper right) oil on canvas 86...

CHAIM SOUTINE

(1893-1943)

La femme du cordonnier

signed “Soutine” (upper right)

oil on canvas

86.3 x 61 cm (34 x 24 in.)

painted ca. 1928

Estimate: £480,000–620,000

$700,000–900,000





Provenance

Armand Parent, Paris

Renée Laporte, Paris

Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, New York

Private Collection, Switzerland

Galerie Schmit, Paris (acquired from the above in 1973)

Fuji International Art, Tokyo (acquired from the above in 1976)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1976




Exhibited

Paris, Galerie de France, Soutine rétrospective, January-February 1945, n.n.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Nate and Frances Spingold Collection, March 23-June 19, 1960, n.n.

New York, Wildenstein and Co., The Nate and Frances Spingold Collection, January 23-March 8, 1969, no. 65




Literature

Pierre Courthion, Soutine. Peintre du déchirant, Paris, 1972, p. 259D (illustrated, p. 258)

Esti Dunow, Klaus Perls, and Maurice Tuchman, Chaim Soutine, Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1993, vol. II, p. 694, no. 126 (illustrated in colour, p. 127)
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Soutine produced some of the most poignant portraits of the 20th century. His series of paintings of hotel and restaurant staff and of the women and men in his acquaintance express the tragedy but also the essential absurdity of the human condition.
Discussing the centrality of the portrait within Soutine’s oeuvre, Esti Dunow states: “The portrait (or the figure) was a perfect vehicle for Soutine in its single focus. The depth of his emotional response to the subject was suited to the increasingly restricted compositional format he used. This focus enabled Soutine to give maximum emotional concentration to his subject and to resolve that image structurally, relating the figure to its two-and three-dimensional space.” (Esti Dunow quoted in Norman Kleeblatt and Kenneth Silver, An Expressionist in Paris, The Paintings of Chaim Soutine, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 1998, p. 139).