LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

19.49 in. (49.50 cm.) (height) by 28.39 in. (72.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Soutine' (lower right)

Exhibited:

(Possibly) Paris, Galerie Paul Guillaume, Group Exhibition, Acquisitions of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, January - February 1923 (no catalogue). (Possibly) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary European Paintings and Sculpture, April - May 1923. Munster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, C. Soutine, December 1981 - February 1982, no. 24, p. 242 (illustrated p. 167; dated '1919'); this exhibition later travelled to Tubingen, Kunsthalle, March - May 1982; London, Hayward Gallery, July - August 1982; and Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, August - October 1982. New York, Galleri Bellman, Soutine (1893-1943), December 1983 - January 1984, pp. 8 & 67 (illustrated pl. 7, p. 32).

Literature:

E. Dunow, Soutine: Céret 1919-1922, exh. cat., Muse´e d'art moderne de Ce´ret, Céret, 2000, p. 215 (illustrated; titled 'L'église Saint-Pierre et la Place du Berri à Céret'). M. Tuchman, E. Dunow & K. Perls, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943): Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Cologne, 2001, no. 62, p. 176 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Dr Albert C. Barnes, Merion Station, Pennsylvania, by whom acquired directly from the artist through Léopold Zborowski, in December 1922. Dr David Riesman, Sr., Oakland, Pennsylvania, a gift from the above, in May 1930. David Riesman, Jr., Cambridge, Massachusetts, by descent from the above, in 1940; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 14 May 1980, lot 144. Perls Galleries, New York (no. 12889), by whom acquired at the above sale. Acquired from the above by the present owners, on 31 July 1984.