Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)
La folle
signed 'Soutine' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 23 7/8 in. (91.7 x 61.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1925
Provenance
M. Bing, Paris.
Professor Hadorn, Bern.
Jacques Lindon, New York.
Leo M. Rogers, New York; sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1972, lot 140.
Private Collection, Japan (by the late 1970s).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Exhibited
Bern, Kunsthalle, Chefs-d'oeuvres des collections bernoises, 1953, no. 124.
Lot Essay
Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow will include this painting in the forthcoming supplement to their Soutine catalogue raisonné.
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