Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Despair, Desire and Delight: Works from an Outstanding Private Collection
Chaïm Soutine
Le taureau
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
Le taureau
signed C. Soutine (upper right)
oil on board
24 by 39.6 cm., 9½ by 15⅝in.
Framed: 33.6 by 47.6 cm., 13¼ by 18¾in.
Painted circa 1941-42.
The painting will be included in the forthcoming Volume III of the Chaim Soutine catalogue raisonne, now in preparation by Esti Dunow.
Collection Mme. Zborowska
Maurice Lafaille, Paris
Chozo Yoshii, Tokyo
Sale: Sotheby's Mitsukoshi, Toyko, 3rd October 1969, lot 384
Gallery Asada, Nagoya (sold: Sotheby's, London, 1st July 1998, lot 285)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Maurice Lafaille, Paris
Chozo Yoshii, Tokyo
Sale: Sotheby's Mitsukoshi, Toyko, 3rd October 1969, lot 384
Gallery Asada, Nagoya (sold: Sotheby's, London, 1st July 1998, lot 285)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Pierre Courthion, Soutine. Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 287, illustrated fig. D