Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Chaïm Soutine

Maisons à Céret

Auction Closed

March 6, 07:55 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Chaïm Soutine

1893 - 1943


Maisons à Céret

oil on canvas

60.2 by 81 cm. 23 ¾ by 31 ⅞ in.

Executed circa 1920. 

Paul Guillaume, Paris

The Barnes Foundation, Merion Station, Pennsylvania (acquired in 1923)

Mary and Nelle E. Mullen, Merion Station, Pennsylvania (probably acquired from the above)

The Estate of Nelle E. Mullen

Samuel T. Freeman and Co., Philadelphia, The Mullen Collection, 15 November 1967, lot 35 (consigned by the above)

Marlborough Fine Art, London (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection (acquired from the above on 20 August 1968)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Philadelphia Public Ledger, 25 March 1923, illustrated

Pierre Courthion, Soutine. Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, p. 45, illustrated in colour; p. 191, fig. C, illustrated (titled Château rouge et maisons à Céret and dated 1919)

Grand Collection of World Art: Modigliani and the School of Paris, no. 24, Tokyo, 1975, no. 19, p. 115, illustrated

Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow and Klaus Perls, Chaim Soutine, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Cologne, 1993, no. 49, p. 162, illustrated in colour

(possibly) Paris, Paul Guillaume, 1923

(possibly) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1923

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, International Expressionism, Part I, 1968, no. 60, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1922)

Musée d'art Moderne de Céret, Soutine. Céret 1919-1922, 2000, illustrated in colour on the dust cover (detail); p. 221, illustrated in colour (titled L'eglise Saint-Pierre à Céret and dated 1920)