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CHAIM SOUTINE (1894-1943) Nature morte au chou rouge signed "Soutine" (lower right) oil on board ...

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CHAIM SOUTINE (1894-1943) Nature morte au chou rouge signed Soutine (lower right) oil on board ...
CHAIM SOUTINE
(1894-1943)
Nature morte au chou rouge
signed "Soutine" (lower right)
oil on board
21 x 17 1/2 in. (53.3 x 44.5 cm)
painted ca. 1918
Estimate: $200,000-300,000 <p>Provenance
Galerie Max Moos, Geneva
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, New York (acquired from the above in 1948)
Anon. sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 2000, lot 335
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner <p>Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., The Colin Collection, April 12-May 14, 1960, no.75 (illustrated)
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Chaim Soutine, 1893-1943, 1973, no.10 (illustrated) <p>Literature
Pierre Courthion, Soutine, Peintre du déchirant, Paris, 1972, p. 84 (illustrated in color, p. 85 and p. 251H)
Maurice Tuchman, "Soutine distorted the pictures but not the people," Art News, October 1973, p. 85 (illustrated)
Esti Dunow, Klaus Perls, and Maurice Tuchman, Chaim Soutine, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1993, vol. I, p. 367, no. 16 (illustrated in color, p. 366)
Early in his career, Soutine painted a remarkable group of still-life compositions. In these works, the artist imbues ordinary objects with the pathos of human beings. Forks and other items of cutlery resemble hands, and fruits and vegetables pulsate with life, which belies their vegetal origin. Ordinary jugs and pitchers remind the viewer of human faces with enlarged ears, as in many of his portraits. During Soutine's visits to the Louvre in
Paris, he was influenced not only by Rembrandt, but by the masters of Dutch 17th century still-life painting. The power and animation that he gives to ordinary objects, as here, make him their logical, quintessentially 20th century successor.
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