ID 717763
Lot 84 | CHAÏM SOUTINE (1893-1943)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
La volaille pendue aux briques rouges
oil on canvas
35 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄8 in. (90.2 x 51.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1924
Provenance
Private collection.
Katia Granoff, Paris, by whom acquired from the above, by 1951, and thence by descent.
Private collection, Belgium, by whom acquired from the above in 2013.
Literature
J. Lassaigne, Soutine, Paris, 1954, no. 8, n.p. (inverted image illustrated pl. 8; titled 'Le coq sur fond de brique').
J. Diwo, 'Soutine, Le dernier maudit', in Paris Match, Paris, 8 August 1959, p. 69 (inverted image illustrated).
P. Courthion, Soutine, Peintre du déchirant, Paris, 1972, no. C, p. 244 (illustrated; titled 'Dinde sur fond de briques rouges' and dated '1925').
M. Tuchman, E. Dunow & K. Perls, Chaim Soutine, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Cologne, 1993, no. 66, p. 426 (illustrated p. 429).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Nature mortes françaises du XVIIe sie'cle a' nos jours, 1951, no. 191, n.p. (titled 'La dinde').
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Cent tableaux de Soutine, 1959, no. 62, n.p.. (titled 'Dinde sur fond de briques rouges').
Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff, Espoirs et Certitudes de Katia Granoff, June - July 1964.
Tokyo, Musée Odakyu, À Paris, cafés d’artistes et leurs légendes: Montmartre, Montparnasse et Saint-Germain, October - November 1999; this exhibition later travelled to Mie, Musée préfectoral, November - December 1999; Yokohama, Musée Sogo, January 2000; Osaka Umeda, Musée d'Art Daimaru, February 2000; and Takamatsu, Musée municipal d'Art, February - March 2000.
Nogent-sur-Seine, Musée Paul Dubois-Alfred Boucher, Centenaire du Muse´e de Nogent-sur-Seine et de 'La Ruche' de Paris, Summer 2002, no. 12.
Budapest, Holokauszt Emlékközpont, Modigliani, Soutine et leurs amis de Montparnasse, July - October 2003.
Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, Soutine, October 2007- January 2008, no. 59, n.p. (details illustrated; illustrated again n.p.).
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Soutine und die Moderne, March - July 2008, no. 41, pp. 138 & 270 (illustrated p. 139).
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| Artist: | Chaïm Soutine (1893 - 1943) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Chaïm Soutine (1893 - 1943) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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