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Chaim Soutine
White House on a Hillcirca 1918

Not on view
Horizontal oil painting of a white two-story house with an orange roof, surrounded by bare trees and approached by a curving ochre path, painted in loose, energetic brushstrokes
Reverse of a framed canvas showing a plain brown backing board with wooden stretcher bars, metal corner brackets, and several provenance labels including a museum accession label and a red H.G. Ollendorff shipping label with handwritten numbers.
Artist or Maker
Chaim Soutine
Lithuania, active France, 1893-1943
Title
White House on a Hill
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1918
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
20 5/8 × 25 in. (52.39 × 63.5 cm)
Credit Line
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number
M.2005.70.125
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1893-1943). Dr. Louis Devraigne (1881-1968), Paris; [Sold at Hotel Drouot, Paris, November 24, 1928, lot 84]; to Mr. Clausen; [sold by 1937 to Valentine Gallery, New York]; [sold by 1945 to Colin Collection, New York]; [sold to Acquavella Galleries, New York]; sold in May 1998 to]; Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Tuchman, Maurice, Esti Dunow, and Klaus Perls. Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943): Catalogue Raisonné-Werkverzeichnis. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1993.