Lot Essay
Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow will include this painting in the forthcoming supplement to their Soutine catalogue raisonné.
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La route peu rassurante
Details
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)
La route peu rassurante
signed 'Soutine' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25½ x 21½ in. (64.8 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted in 1918-1919
La route peu rassurante
signed 'Soutine' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25½ x 21½ in. (64.8 x 54.6 cm.)
Painted in 1918-1919
Provenance
Musée de Lucerne.
Galerie d'Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2002, lot 314.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Galerie d'Elysée (Alex Maguy), Paris.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 7 November 2002, lot 314.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Courthion, Soutine, Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 189, fig. D (illustrated; illustrated in color, p. 36).
Exhibited
Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, Exposition Inaugurales: Maîtres Français du XXe Siècle, April-July 1971, no. 78 (illustrated; titled Route Montante).