Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
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)