1924 (ca.), Chaim Soutine, Arbre couché (Fallen Tree) -- Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris)
From the museum label: Executed predominantly during Soutine's stay in Céret in the early 1920s, these sinuous, tortured landscapes seem to be dancing. The artist's treatment makes the world pitch unsteadily in the grip of instability. However harmony prevails nonetheless and, like Van Gogh (1853-1890) and the German Expressionists, Soutine offers a vision of the cosmos which is steeped in pantheism.
1924 (ca.), Chaim Soutine, Arbre couché (Fallen Tree) -- Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris)
From the museum label: Executed predominantly during Soutine's stay in Céret in the early 1920s, these sinuous, tortured landscapes seem to be dancing. The artist's treatment makes the world pitch unsteadily in the grip of instability. However harmony prevails nonetheless and, like Van Gogh (1853-1890) and the German Expressionists, Soutine offers a vision of the cosmos which is steeped in pantheism.