Estimated Price:

$900,000 - $1,200,000

Realized Price:

$960,000

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Chaim Soutine 1894-1943 (French, Russian)
Bouquet de fleurs en pot sur fauteuil, c.1918
signed lower left
oil on canvas
h:73 w:54 cm

Provenance: Henriette Gomez, Paris
Perls Galleries, New York
Galerie de l'Elysיee (Alex Maguy), Paris
Albert Levinson, Florida (February 1971 - 15 May 1985)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 378
Private Swiss collection
Galerie Schmit, Paris
Private European collection


Exhibitions: New York, Perls Galleries, "Twenty Four Major Acquisitions", 21 April - 30 May1970, no.18, reproduiced in color.
Munster, Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst, Tubingen, Kunsthalle.
London, Hayward Gallery
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, "Chaim Soutine, 1893-1943", 13 December 1981 - 31 October 1982, no. 68, reproduced p. 109
New York, Gallerie Bellman, "Soutine (1893-1943)", 6 December 1983 - 28 January 1984, p. 23
Paris, Musee de l'Orangerie, "Collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume", 1984, p. 250.
Paris, Galerie Schmit, "Maitres francais XIXe - XXe siecles", 7 May - 19 July 1986, no. 58,
reproduced in color (painting is dated 1916-1917).


Literature: Pierre Courthion, "Soutine, peintre du dechirant", Edita, Lausanne, 1972,
no. B, reproduced page 181(painting is dated 1916-1917).
Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow et Klaus Perls, "Chaim Soutine, catalogue raisonne, volume I".
Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1993, n°27, page 378, reproduced in color p. 380.