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Chaim Soutine
Hill at Ceretcirca 1921

Not on view
Vertical oil painting of a heavily abstracted figure, bust-length, built from thick swirling brushstrokes in olive green, salmon, mustard yellow, and deep purple

Chaim Soutine, Hill at Ceret, circa 1921, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by William Randolph Hearst Collection, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Bright, Burt Kleiner, Isaacs Brothers Company, Mrs. Harold M. English in Memory of Harold M. English, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Price, Los Angeles County Fund, Alexander M. Lewyt, Dr. Teddy Brunius, Estate of Beatrice Miestchenoff, Purchase Award, Armenian Community of Los Angeles, Mack Gilman, Thelma Gladden, and further donors., photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Chaim Soutine
Lithuania, active France, 1893-1943
Title
Hill at Ceret
Place Made
Lithuania, active France
Date Made
circa 1921
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 1/4 × 21 5/8 in. (74.3 × 54.93 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by William Randolph Hearst Collection, Mr. and Mrs. David E. Bright, Burt Kleiner, Isaacs Brothers Company, Mrs. Harold M. English in Memory of Harold M. English, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Price, Los Angeles County Fund, Alexander M. Lewyt, Dr. Teddy Brunius, Estate of Beatrice Miestchenoff, Purchase Award, Armenian Community of Los Angeles, Mack Gilman, Thelma Gladden, and further donors.
Accession Number
82.6
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Provenance
The artist (1893-1943); [by 1923 to The Barnes Foundation, Merion Station, Pennsylvania. [Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York and Paris]; [Henri Bing (Galerie Bing et cie), Paris by 1949]; [perhaps jointly with Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, from ca. 1949 to ca. 1952]. Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe A. Juviler New York, by1952. [Perls Galleries, New York, by 1957]. Mr. (1930-1997) and Mrs. Neil Sellin, New York, from 1963-64; [Perls Galleries, New York, by 1964 until at least 1968]. Allan Bluestein Washington, D.C.by1973. [Perls Galleries, New York]. Peter F. Bronfman (1929-1996), Montreal, by 1976; [Perls Galleries, New York]; sold in 1982 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
  • Kleeblatt, Norman L.; K. Silver; R. Golan; D. Kuspit; C. Giraudon; B. Klüver; J. Martin; E. Pratt; E. Dunow; P. Neveux; Mira Goldfarb Berkowitz. An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1998.
  • Livingston, Jane and Andrea Liguori, eds. Richard Diebenkorn: the Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
  • Tuchman, Maurice, Esti Dunow, and Klaus Perls. Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943): Catalogue Raisonné-Werkverzeichnis. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1993.
  • Gaensheimer, Susanne, and Susanne Meyer-Büser, editors. Chaïm Soutine: Against the Current. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris