In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
In one of Soutine's more narrative scenes, a figure in brown walks up an impossibly steep slope while others gaze down from above. A vista of hilly farmland convulses across the canvas. According to Dr. Barnes's colleague Violette de Mazia, creative departures from physical reality—such as the figure's sideways gait—"result from the artist's making instrumental use of his subject…for the expression of his experience of some aspect of the world he encounters." Taking in the amalgamated whirl of land, trees, and sky, one wonders how else someone might traverse a landscape of Soutine's?
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Chaïm Soutine — The Village
Chaïm Soutine — Le gros arbre bleu
Jules Pascin — Landscape
Chaïm Soutine — Steeple of Saint-Pierre at Céret
Edvard Munch — Summer Night
Chaïm Soutine — The White House
Edvard Munch — Naked men in the Woods
Edvard Munch — Fruit harvest
Jan Zürcher — De woudprediker
Edvard Munch — After the Fall
Edvard Munch — Woman Hurrying Downwards
Edvard Munch — Elm Forest in Autumn
