1929 (ca.), Chaim Soutine, Portrait of Madeleine Castaing -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Soutine met the successful Parisian interior decorator and antiquarian Madeleine Castaing in 1920. She and her husband became one of the artist's most important patrons during the following decade. This portrait required six sittings in the artist's Paris studio. Castaing's fidgeting hands, awkwardly positioned legs, and tense facial expression convey her impatience and discomfort while posing.
1929 (ca.), Chaim Soutine, Portrait of Madeleine Castaing -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Soutine met the successful Parisian interior decorator and antiquarian Madeleine Castaing in 1920. She and her husband became one of the artist's most important patrons during the following decade. This portrait required six sittings in the artist's Paris studio. Castaing's fidgeting hands, awkwardly positioned legs, and tense facial expression convey her impatience and discomfort while posing.