LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.71 in. (65.30 cm.) (height) by 18.03 in. (45.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Soutine' (lower right)

Exhibited:

(possibly) Paris, Paul Guillaume, 1923. (possibly) Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary European Paintings and Sculpture, April-May 1923. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chaïm Soutine, February-April 1968, p. 52, no. 22 (illustrated, p. 76; titled Landscape; with incorrect dimensions).

Literature:

P. Courthion, Soutine: Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 224, no. J (illustrated, p. 225; dated 1923). M. Tuchman, E. Dunow and K. Perls, Chaïm Soutine: Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1993, vol. I, p. 218, no. 98 (illustrated in color, p. 220).

Provenance:

The Barnes Foundation, Merion Station, Pennsylvania (acquired from the artist, 1923). Georges Keller, New York (acquired from the above). Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York. Cecil "Titi" Blaffer von Fürstenberg, Houston (acquired from the above, 1946). By descent from the above to the present owners.