Chaim Soutine (1894-1943)
Chaim Soutine (1894-1943)

Portrait de femme sur fond bleu

Details
Chaim Soutine (1894-1943)
Portrait de femme sur fond bleu
signed 'Soutine' (upper right)
oil on canvas
25¾ x 21 1/8 in. (65.4 x 53.6 cm.)
Painted in 1927-1928
Provenance
Léopold Zborowski, Paris (by 1928).
Henri Bing, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
Dr. Jacques Soubiès, Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. André Fried, Paris (by 1959).
Anon. sale, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 10 December 1985, lot 69.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 34.
Jean Picard, Montreal (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1989, lot 313.
Galerie Taménaga, Paris.
Literature
W. George, Soutine, Paris, 1928.
G. Castelfranco, Bollettino d'Arte, July-September 1952, p. 284 (illustrated, p. 282, fig. 7).
F. Arcangeli, Paragone, September 1952, pl. 31 (illustrated).
P. D'Ancona, Some Aspects of Expressionism, 1957, p. 66 (illustrated in color, p. 55).
P. Cabanne, Arts, 24-30 June 1959, p. 16. P. Courthion, Soutine: Peintre du dechirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 264, no. A (illustrated).
E. Dunow, K. Perls, and M. Tuchman, Chaim Soutine, Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1993, vol. II, p. 690, no. 122 (illustrated in color, p. 691).
Exhibited
Venice, Palazzo Centrale, XXVI Biennale, Chaim Soutine, June-September 1952, no. 23.
Sale room notice
Please note the correct dimensions are 25¾ x 21 1/8 in. (65.4 x 53.6 cm.) and the final line of provenance should read: Galerie Taménaga, Paris.

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