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Chaïm Soutine

Portrait du garçon en bleu

Estimate

1,800,000 - 2,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Chaïm Soutine

1893 - 1943


Portrait du garçon en bleu

signed Soutine (upper right)

oil on canvas 

76.5 by 57.8 cm. 30⅛ by 22¾ in.

Executed circa 1928.

Marcellin and Madeleine Castaing, Paris (acquired from the artist)

Mr and Mrs Lloyd Bruce Wescott, Clinton, New Jersey (acquired by 1935)

Mr and Mrs Ralph F. Colin (acquired from the above on 27 June 1945)

Christie’s, New York, Important Modern Works of Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, 10 May 1995, lot 43 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

The Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Haïm Soutine, December 1935, no. 20 

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Two Russians: Chagall and Soutine, 1945, no. 45

New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Soutine, 1950-51, illustrated in colour

Venice, XXVI Biennale, Chaïm Soutine, 1952, no. 14 (dated 1929)

New York, Wildenstein & Co., American and French Modern Masters, 1955, no. 29 (dated 1929)

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., The Colin Collection, 1960, no. 86, illustrated (dated 1929)

London, Tate Gallery, Chaïm Soutine, 1893-1943, 1963, no. 42, illustrated in colour (dated 1929)

New York, Perls Galleries, Chaim Soutine, 1969, no. 19, illustrated in colour (dated 1929)

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Soutine, 1973, no. 50 (dated circa 1929 and with incorrect measurements)

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Inc., Chaïm Soutine, 1973, no. 59, illustrated (dated circa 1929)

Hastings, Hastings Contemporary, Soutine | Kossoff, 2023, no. 78, illustrated in colour 

Clement Greenberg, “Art Chronicle: Chaïm Soutine,” Partisan Review, vol. 18, no. 1, New York, 1951, p. 86 (dated 1929)

Paolo D’Ancona, Modigliani, Chagall, Soutine, Pascin: Some Aspects of Expressionism, Milan, 1952, p. 57, illustrated in colour (dated 1929 and with inverted measurements) 

Alfred Werner, “Chaïm Soutine: Self-Liberation Through Art,” The Chicago Jewish Forum, vol. 10, no. 3, Spring 1952, p. 180 (dated 1929)

Jacques Lassaigne, Soutine, Paris, 1954, pl. 16, illustrated in colour

“Manet to Arp - The Colin Collection,” Vogue, 15 April 1960, pp. 111 and 148, illustrated in colour

David Sylvester, “Soutine,” The Sunday Times Colour Magazine, 15 September 1963, p. 3, illustrated in colour (dated 1929)

T. Elder Dickson, “International and Scottish,” Studio International, vol. 166, no. 847, November 1963, p. 205 (dated 1929)

Marcellin Castaing and Jean Leymarie, Soutine, Paris, 1963, pl. XVII, illustrated in colour

Katherine G. Kline, “Form and Frenzy,” ARTnews, vol. 68, no. 8, December 1969, p. 50, illustrated (dated 1929)

Pierre Courthion, Soutine, Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 268, fig. B, illustrated

Raymond Cogniat, Soutine, Paris, 1973, p. 57, illustrated in colour (dated 1929)

Jacques Lassaigne, Soutine, Paris, 1973, no. 12, illustrated in colour

Alfred Werner, Chaïm Soutine, New York, 1977, no. 37, pp. 138-39, illustrated in colour (dated 1929)

Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow and Klaus Perls, Chaïm Soutine, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1993, no. 111, p. 676, illustrated in colour