In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A formidable woman sits in a red armchair, resting her head in her hand. Her multicolored face is a mask of contemplation; fingers and arms bend and twist like the limbs of trees. In placing Soutine's portrait in this grouping, Albert Barnes surely wanted to highlight its relationship with Old Masters like Jacopo Tintoretto. Barnes also saw the influence of Honoré Daumier, hanging the great caricaturist's large painting, The Ribalds, on the adjacent wall. He wrote: "From Daumier…is derived [Soutine's] method of so simplifying and distorting objects that they sometimes appear monstrous or grotesque, but are nevertheless convincing in their essential reality."
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Max Beckmann — Portrait of Frau Tube / Portrait of an Old La
Paul Cézanne — The Drinker (Le Buveur)
Jules Pascin — Girl in Green Reading
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Knave with sweeties
Paul Cézanne — Young Italian Woman at a Table
Ferdinand Hodler — Der Stabschnitzer
Vincent van Gogh — Peasant Woman Sitting on a Chair
Jules Pascin — Nude and Books (Nu et livres)
Edvard Munch — Model with Hands Resting on Knees
Henri Matisse — Seated Nude in a Tan Room
Paul Cézanne — Madame Cézanne in Blue
Paul Cézanne — Louis-Auguste Cézanne, père de l'artiste (The
