Portrait of Moïse Kisling
Chaim Soutine, Russian (active France), 1893 - 1943
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
c. 1930Medium:
Oil on cardboard on MasoniteDimensions:
39 x 27 1/4inches (99.1 x 69.2cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
1943-101-1Credit Line:
Gift of Arthur Wiesenberger, 1943
Made in France, Europe
Date:
c. 1930Medium:
Oil on cardboard on MasoniteDimensions:
39 x 27 1/4inches (99.1 x 69.2cm)Curatorial Department:
European PaintingObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1943-101-1Credit Line:
Gift of Arthur Wiesenberger, 1943
Label:
Chaim Soutine moved to Paris in 1913 and worked in relative obscurity until 1923, when the noted American art collector Dr. Albert C. Barnes purchased fifty-two of his expressionist paintings for his foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Barnes was attracted to his thickly painted portraits and turbulent landscape paintings, and his unprecedented acquisition of almost the entire contents of the artist's studio meant that Soutine suddenly achieved fame and financial security after almost a decade of poverty and struggle for recognition. This portrait of the Polish-born artist Moïse Kisling is an incisive likeness of his close friend, although the energetic paint handling imbues the work with a startling expressionist force.
Chaim Soutine moved to Paris in 1913 and worked in relative obscurity until 1923, when the noted American art collector Dr. Albert C. Barnes purchased fifty-two of his expressionist paintings for his foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Barnes was attracted to his thickly painted portraits and turbulent landscape paintings, and his unprecedented acquisition of almost the entire contents of the artist's studio meant that Soutine suddenly achieved fame and financial security after almost a decade of poverty and struggle for recognition. This portrait of the Polish-born artist Moïse Kisling is an incisive likeness of his close friend, although the energetic paint handling imbues the work with a startling expressionist force.