View of Céret
Chaïm Soutine (French, 1893-1943)
View of Céret, ca. 1921–22
Oil on canvas
74 x 85.7 cm. (29 1/8 x 33 3/4 in.)
Signed lower right: Soutine
Provenance
[Léopold Zborowski, Paris]; Albert C. Barnes, Merion, Pa., by 1923. Sold at auction, Notable Modern French and Other Paintings..., Parke Bernet, New York, 18 Jan. 1945, lot 170 ( as Square in Cagnes); bought at auction by Henry Pearlman; Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, by 1959.
Critical Perspective
Henry Pearlman purchased this painting at auction in New York in 1945, finding it more challenging than any of the works of art he had bought previously. It set him on a new path in collecting.