In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Soutine depicts a church swallowed up by a turbulent southern French landscape. While the building's belltower stands erect, the main vessel stretches at an alarming angle across roiling hills crackling with acidic pinks, yellows, and purples. A black, leafless tree seems to claw at the scene. Soutine's passionately distorted image recalls the Byzantine tradition of landscape painting, as seen in the Post-Byzantine Nativity in Room 15.
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Chaïm Soutine — Steeple of Saint-Pierre at Céret
Chaïm Soutine — Chemin de la Fontaine des Tins at Céret
Wassily Kandinsky — Munich, English Garden (Lake and Dinghy)
Wassily Kandinsky — Landscape
Edvard Munch — Coastal Landscape at Hvitsten
Edvard Munch — Rain at the Coast
Chaïm Soutine — Le gros arbre bleu
Chaïm Soutine — The Village
Edvard Munch — Winter in Kragerø
Chaïm Soutine — Paysage de Céret
Ferdinand Hodler — Gemmilandschaft mit Schwarenbach
Chaïm Soutine — The Houses
