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Artist: Soutine Chaïm Solomonovich
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Year1933
CategoryPainting
ProvenanceHarrison Collection, Rambouillet, FranceMr & Mrs Jack I. Poses, New York (acquired by 1973; sale: Sotheby's, New York, 10th May 1995, lot 370)Private Collection (purchased at the above sale)EXHIBITEDParis, Orangerie des Tuilleries, Chaim Soutine, 1973, illustrated in the catalogueNew York, Gallery Bellman, Chaim Soutine, 1983-84, no. 30, illustrated in the catalogueLITERATURE AND REFERENCESHenri Serouya, Soutine, 1967, illustratedPierre Courthion, Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, illustrated pp. 111 & 279BE. Hoffman, Burlington Magazine, July 1973, p. 485Raymond Cogniat, Soutine, 1973, illustrated p. 60Collection du Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume (exhibition catalogue), Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1984, p. 254Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow & Klaus Perls, Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), Catalogue raisonné, Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 1993, vol. I, no. 151, illustrated p. 285CATALOGUE NOTELes escaliers à Chartres is one of three paintings of the same subject executed in 1933. 'In Soutine's work the 1930s are marked by the so-called Chartres period... They [Marcellin and Madeleine Casting] invited him to their residence in Lèves very close to Chartres. It was at the Casting's house where he met Eric Satie and Maurice Sachs. In Lèves Soutine painted a large portion of his entire work of that period. He resumed the landscape painting he had abandoned in 1925' (M. Vallès-Bled, in Chaim Soutine (exhibition catalogue), Musei d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, 1995, p. 174). Typical of Soutine's works of the late 1920's and early 30's he has set up his easel in an obscure part of the town as he disliked people watching him paint. In the present work the beautifully painted, almost translucent, stone staircase is the focal point. In order to closely depict the light in this scene the artist relied on strong contrasts of chiaroscuro. The present work is a remarkable example of this technique.
COMP ID: 436D07008_COMPFig I., Photograph of Chaim Soutine circa 1935
COMP ID: 436D07008_COMPFig I., Photograph of Chaim Soutine circa 1935
Size, cm*61×44
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