In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A little girl in a red blouse and pink hairbow poses proudly for her portrait with her hands in her lap, fingers interlaced. Soutine, as a boy, had been badly beaten for asking a rabbi to pose for a portrait, not fully grasping the Jewish rules against representation; later, as an émigré to France, he embraced the tradition of portrait-painting. Soutine's tender portrait of this child seems to radiate his joy in creating an image of another human person.
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Chaïm Soutine — Mad Woman
Chaïm Soutine — Woman in Red Blouse
Amedeo Modigliani — Girl with a Polka-Dot Blouse (Jeune fill
Paula Modersohn-Becker — Head of a Girl
Pablo Picasso — Child Seated in an Armchair (Enfant assis da
Paul Cézanne — Boy in a Red Vest (Le Garçon au gilet rouge)
Amedeo Modigliani — Girl with Pigtails
Chaïm Soutine — Farm Girl
Amedeo Modigliani — Girl Standing in Black Pinafore
Amedeo Modigliani — The Pretty Housewife (La Jolie ménagère)
Paula Modersohn-Becker — Half figure of a girl with a yellow
Paula Modersohn-Becker — Child with a Clock Weight
