Le Mas Passe-Temps, Céret
About this artwork
For many years this painting was titled 'Les Gorges du Loup' after an area near Nice, in the south of France, which is famous for its waterfalls. However, it has recently been proven that the painting depicts a landscape near the village of Céret in the Pyrenees, where Soutine moved in 1919. After arriving in the area the artist began to animate his landscape motifs with such frenzied brushwork that the trees and houses seem to lean in the wind. Soutine used the paint very thickly and with great energy.
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title:Le Mas Passe-Temps, Céret
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accession number:GMA 2312
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:1920 - 1921
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measurements:62.80 x 86.30 cm (framed: 93.30 x 116.70 x 8.80 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1981
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photographer:Antonia Reeve
Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine
Soutine grew up in a small Jewish community in Lithuania where it was forbidden to draw or paint representational images. Against the wishes of his family, he enrolled at art school in 1910, and three years later settled in Paris. Soutine lived in poverty for many years until the American…
