Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)
La femme au chien
signed 'C.H. Soutine' (lower right)
oil on canvas
28¾ x 21½ in. (73 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1917
Provenance
Henri Bing, Paris (1930).
Valentine Gallery, New York.
Dr. Harry A. Blutman, New York.
Acquired from the estate of the above by the family of the present owners, November 1967.
Literature
P. Courthion, Soutine, peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 184, no. A (illustrated).
Lot Essay
Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow will include this painting in the forthcoming volume III of the Soutine catalogue raisonné currently being prepared with the cooperation of Galerie Cazeau-Beraudière, Paris.