Property from a Private American Collection
Chaïm Soutine
1893 - 1943
Pommes, pot, chaise et bouquet
signed Soutine (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 by 21 ½ in.
73.7 by 54.6 cm.
Executed circa 1916-17.
This painting will be included in the forthcoming Volume III of the Chaim Soutine catalogue raisonné, now in preparation by Esti Dunow.
Condition Report
Provenance
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York
Maria Martins, New York
Dr. Harry Austin Blutman, New York (acquired by 1950)
Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1960)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
Pierre Courthion, Soutine: Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 181, fig. A, illustrated
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Soutine, October 1950 - January 1951
Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani-Soutine, January - March 1951, p. 37, illustrated
Musée d'art moderne de Céret, Soutine: Céret 1919 - 1922, June - October 2000, pp. 432-33, illustrated in color (dated 1919)
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Life in Death: The Still Lifes and Select Masterworks of Chaim Soutine, April - June, 2014 pp. 44-45, illustrated in color (dated circa 1918)
