Group of Trees (Groupe d'arbres)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 11, South Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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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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