Self-Portrait PUAM(4)
Week 5 Portraits of Painters (2) (1021 – 1025)10/27 – 10/31/2019 ID 1022
Chaïm Soutine Russian (active in France) 1893-1943
Self-Portrait , about 1918
Oil on canvas
Born in a small town near Minsk and trained as an artist in Lithuania, Soutine moved to Paris in 1913. There, he became a member of the cosmopolitan artistic world of Montparnasse and the group that critics of the 1920s called “The Paris School.” Here, Soutine portrays himself facing the easel, a composition inspired by a Rembrandt self-portrait and a formula exploited earlier by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. Whereas those masters showed themselves as heroic, purposeful figures before a canvas, Soutine depicts himself as a small figure turning to face us; he included on the reverse of the artist’s canvas a dark, mysterious figure, perhaps a lurking alter ego.
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum
From the Placard: Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
www.artnet.com/artists/cha%C3%AFm-soutine/
Self-Portrait PUAM(4)
Week 5 Portraits of Painters (2) (1021 – 1025)10/27 – 10/31/2019 ID 1022
Chaïm Soutine Russian (active in France) 1893-1943
Self-Portrait , about 1918
Oil on canvas
Born in a small town near Minsk and trained as an artist in Lithuania, Soutine moved to Paris in 1913. There, he became a member of the cosmopolitan artistic world of Montparnasse and the group that critics of the 1920s called “The Paris School.” Here, Soutine portrays himself facing the easel, a composition inspired by a Rembrandt self-portrait and a formula exploited earlier by Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. Whereas those masters showed themselves as heroic, purposeful figures before a canvas, Soutine depicts himself as a small figure turning to face us; he included on the reverse of the artist’s canvas a dark, mysterious figure, perhaps a lurking alter ego.
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum
From the Placard: Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
www.artnet.com/artists/cha%C3%AFm-soutine/