In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Soutine fled to the south of France after German troops bombed Paris in 1918. He was accompanied by his friend Amedeo Modigliani and his dealer, Leopold Zborowski, and settled for three years in the town of Céret. Here, Soutine paints a reeling townscape (perhaps Céret) blocked by a lattice of trees that lash upwards like flames. His vigorous brushwork, applied without differentiation between foreground and background, flattens the space into a whirling painterly effect that seems to merge the physical landscape with his personal experience of it.
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Chaïm Soutine — The Village
Alfred Maurer — Landscape with House
Chaïm Soutine — Man Praying
Chaïm Soutine — Steeple of Saint-Pierre at Céret
Alfred Maurer — Tree and Rock
Chaïm Soutine — Chemin de la Fontaine des Tins at Céret
Edvard Munch — The Fight
Chaïm Soutine — Paysage à l'âne rouge
Henri Matisse — Two Young Girls in a Coral Interior, Blue Ga
Henri Matisse — Japonaise: Woman beside the Water
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Landscape (Paysage)
Henri Matisse — Coquelicots et Iris II
