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Dimensions: measurements 25 3/4 by 21 1/2 in. alternate measurements 65.3 by 54.4 cm

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Provenance: Eugène Descaves, Paris (sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Collection de M. Eugène Descaves, June 2, 1928, lot 55)
Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Miestchaninoff, Paris & New York (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, April 15, 1970, lot 75
Ephraim Ilin, London (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner in 1973

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Exhibited: Tokyo, Galerie Yoshii, Soutine. Peintre de la fatalité - fureur passionnée, 1973, no. 6, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Yoshii, Soutine, 1974, no. 8, illustrated in the catalogue
Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte; Kunsthalle Tübingen; London, Hayward Gallery & Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Chaim Soutine. 1893-1943, 1981-82, no. 1, illustrated in the catalogue
Montrouge, Centre Culturel et Artistique, XXXIe Salon, 1986, no. 1, illustrated in the catalogue
Kawasiki Municipal Museum & Museum of Fine Arts of Kumamoto; Museum of Modern Art of Gunma & Mazujama, Museum of Fine Arts of Ehime, La Grande aventure de Montparnasse 1910-1930, 1988-89, no. 59, illustrated in color the catalogue
Musée de Chartres, Soutine, 1989, no. 5, illustrated in color in the catalogue

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Literature: J. Alvard, "L'Ecole de Paris", Art d'Aujourd'hui, no 7-8, March 1950, illustrated p. 38
Pierre Courthion, Soutine. Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, 1972, illustrated p. 174
Alfred Werner, "Chaim Soutine: Master of the Loaded Brush", American Artist, New York, December 1973, illustrated in color p. 53
Alfred Werner, Chaim Soutine, Paris & New York, 1977, fig. 8, illustrated p. 21
Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow & Klaus Perls, Chaim Soutine, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Cologne, 1993, no. 3, illustrated in color p. 353