Woman with Round Eyes (La Femme aux yeux ronds)
c. 1919
Oil on canvas
81.3 × 65.4 cm (32 × 25.7 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 05, North Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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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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