Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Chaïm Soutine
L'âne
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Chaïm Soutine
1893 - 1943
L'âne
signed Soutine (lower right)
oil on panel
34.3 by 49.2cm., 13½ by 19⅜in.
Framed: 45.5 by 60.5cm., 17⅞ by 23⅞in.
Painted circa 1934.
Madeleine Castaing, Paris
Sale: Tajan, Thursday, 31st March 2005, lot 23
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Marcellin Castaing & Jean Leymarie, Soutine, Paris and Lausanne, 1963, pl. XXXI, illustrated in colour
Renata Negri, "Soutine", in L'Arte Moderna, vol. 10, Milan, 1967, no. 87, illustrated in colour p. 226
Pierre Courthion, Soutine. Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 280, illustrated fig. F
Renata Negri, La Scuola di Parigi e i suoi protagonisti, Milan, 1977, p. 191, illustrated p. 186
Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow & Klaus Perls, Chaim Soutine. Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1993, vol. I, p. 494, no. 118, illustrated in colour p. 497