Young Girl in Red Blouse (La Petite fille en rouge)

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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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