In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Chaim Soutine is known for working in series. For Soutine, repetition was a really a strategy for expressing originality: each portrait is meant as a fresh encounter between a material subject and his own perception. Here, we see the lanky figure of a bald, elderly man sitting on a wooden chair with his gnarled hands folded (in prayer?) across his lap. His body is elongated, like the canvas itself; positioned frontally, the man resembles a Byzantine icon or Gothic statue.
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Chaïm Soutine — Le vieillard aux mains jointes
Edvard Munch — Jappe Nilssen
Chaïm Soutine — Man Praying
Edvard Munch — Leopold Wondt
Edvard Munch — Daniel Jacobson
Chaïm Soutine — Self-Portrait
Chaïm Soutine — Self-portrait by Chaïm Soutine
Edvard Munch — Helge Rode
Edvard Munch — Ludvig Ravensberg
Max Beckmann — Portrait of Hanns Rabe
Edvard Munch — History: Study for the Boy
Edvard Munch — Jens Thiis (Painting)
