In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
When Albert Barnes first visited Chaim Soutine's Paris studio in 1922, the struggling artist was known only in the city's bohemian circles. Seeing this painting of a pastry chef sparked Dr. Barnes to buy more than 50 works by Soutine in the course of a few weeks, through the art dealer Paul Guillaume. In 1923, Guillaume recounted his discovery of Soutine's work: "One day when I had gone to a painter's house to see a picture by Modigliani I noticed in a corner of the studio a work which immediately got me excited. It was a Soutine; and it showed a pastry chef—an incredible, captivating, tangible, colorful pastry chef, cursed with a huge, magnificent ear, unexpected but right; a masterpiece. I bought it."
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Chaïm Soutine — Le vieillard aux mains jointes
Chaïm Soutine — Mad Woman
Chaïm Soutine — Woman in Red Blouse
Chaïm Soutine — Farm Girl
Edvard Munch — Seated Young Woman
Chaïm Soutine — Young Woman in a White Blouse
Edvard Munch — History: Study for the Boy
Chaïm Soutine — The Little Pastry Cook
Edvard Munch — Elsa Glaser
Edvard Munch — Ingeborg with her Arms behind her Back
Amedeo Modigliani — Portrait de l'artiste Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine — Decline
