Soutine Exhibition at Cheim & Read Positions Artist as Father of Abstract Expressionism and British Realism
"The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art" is on display at Cheim & Read in New York until September 9. This exhibition showcases 46 pieces that establish Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) as a pivotal influence on American Abstract Expressionism and British expressive realism. Among the 17 Soutine works featured are "View of Cagnes" (1924-25) and "The Carcass of Beef" (c.1925), alongside contributions from artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Curators Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow aim to underscore Soutine's significance, especially in light of the Museum of Modern Art's removal of his "Chartres Cathedral" (1934). The article first appeared in the New York Sun on July 6, 2006.
Key facts
- Exhibition "The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art" runs until September 9 at Cheim & Read in New York
- Features 46 works, including 17 by Chaim Soutine
- Major loans include "View of Cagnes" from the Metropolitan Museum and "The Carcass of Beef" from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Curated by Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow, collaborators on Soutine's 1993 catalogue raisonné
- Positions Soutine as a father figure for American Abstract Expressionism and British expressive realism
- Includes works by Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and Leon Kossoff
- Highlights Soutine's carcass motif, inspired by Rembrandt's "Slaughtered Ox"
- Notes Museum of Modern Art deaccessioned Soutine's "Chartres Cathedral" in 1934
Entities
Artists
- Chaim Soutine
- Willem de Kooning
- Jackson Pollock
- Philip Guston
- Joan Mitchell
- Frank Auerbach
- Lucian Freud
- Leon Kossoff
- Alice Neel
- Joel Shapiro
- Avigdor Arikha
- Louise Bourgeois
- Jean Dubuffet
- Gandy Brodie
- Georg Baselitz
- Susan Rothenberg
- Bill Jensen
- Jack Tworkov
- Milton Resnick
- Francis Bacon
- Rembrandt
- Vincent van Gogh
- Courbet
- Chardin
- Constable
- Hogarth
- Rubens
- Titian
- Poussin
- Klaus Perls
Institutions
- Cheim & Read
- Metropolitan Museum
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Museum of Modern Art
- New York Sun
- artcritical
- Kasmin Gallery
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Buffalo
- Paris
- France
- Ceret
- Lithuania
- Germany
- London
- United Kingdom
- New York City
- West 27th Street
- West 25th Street
- 10th Avenue
- 11th Avenue
- Manhattan
- Chelsea