In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A figure sits against a blood-red background, gazing out at the viewer through large blue eyes. Soutine uses the familiar conventions of portraiture—note the folded hands and the three-quarter view pose—and then explodes tradition with fiery colors and undulating sweeps of paint. The hands are especially expressive—pinks and oranges applied in crude, broad strokes, with a few patches of bare canvas showing through.
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Chaïm Soutine (Russian, 1893–1943) — Old Woman
Chaïm Soutine — Self-portrait by Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine — Le groom
Chaïm Soutine — Decline
Chaïm Soutine — The Little Pastry Cook
Paul Cezanne — The Artist's Son, Paul
Edvard Munch — Self-Portrait with Hat and Red Tie
Chaïm Soutine — Mad Woman
Chaïm Soutine — Woman in Pink
Chaïm Soutine — Woman in Red Blouse
Edvard Munch — Boy from Warnemünde
Chaïm Soutine — The Idiot
