Chaïm Soutine, L'Enfant

Property from the Collection Formed by Albin Schram
Chaïm Soutine
1893 - 1943
L'Enfant

Signed Soutine (upper right)
Oil on canvas
17 3/8 by 8 1/4 in. (44.1 by 21 cm)
Framed: 25 3/8 by 16 1/2 in. (64.5 by 41.9 cm)
Painted in 1928.

This painting will be included in the forthcoming Volume III of the Chaim Soutine Catalogue Raisonne by Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow, currently in preparation.

Condition Report:
The canvas is lined. All four edges are taped. An undulation to the canvas. Very fine lines of stable craquelure, most notably running across the top margin of the composition. Under UV light: Strokes of inpainting to all four edges of the canvas. Two additional strokes of inpainting to the sitter's forehead. This work is in good condition.

Provenance:
Gianni Mattioli, Milan

Private Collection, South America (and sold: Sotheby’s, New York, November 10, 2000, lot 402)

Private Collection, Netherlands (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: Briest Scp., Paris, June 22, 2001, lot 41

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)

Thence by descent