Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)

"Piece de beouf / Piece of Beef” c. 1923

Provenance:

PAUL GUILLAUME, Paris (Soutine’s dealer in the 1920s); JOS HESSEL, Paris (Vuillard's art dealer); DUNCAN MCDONALD (dealer/director at The Lefevre Gallery, London); EARDLEY KNOLLYS, painter and dealer) London, by 1945; ALEX REID & LEFEVRE, LTD., London; GEORGES KELLER, (Georges Frédéric Keller), NY and Davos, Switzerland, (Bignou Gallery, NY and Paris, director Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, gallery associate), by 1952 – 1973; (Georges Keller put the work on long term loan to Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland); KNOEDLER MODARCO INC., NY, NY; COSMONDIA SA, Gérance de fortunes (offshore bank), Genève, Switzerland; GALERIE HEYRAUD BRESSON, Paris (Modern art gallery, Paris, France, showed artists such as Jean Lambert-Rucki); DANIEL AND LORETTE SHEFNER, Quebec, Canada (June 1981-July 1986); LORETTE JOLLES SHEFNER, Montreal (July 1986-May 2004); LONTREL TRADING AND GALERIE CAZEAU BERAUDIERE/MAURICE TUCHMAN/ESTI DUNOW (as owner or agent) (May 2004-November 2004); NGA (November 2004-April 2009); BARRY SHEFNER AND THE ARIELA BRAUN 2002 FAMILY TRUST (from May 2009);

· Deassessioned from NGA Permanent Collection May 2009

Publications and Exhibitions:

Courthion, Pierre. Soutine, Peintre du déchirant, Lausanne, Paris, and Fribourg, 1972: repro. 238B; Tuchman, Maurice, Esti Dunow, and Klaus Perls. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943): Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. Cologne, 1993: 1:no. 99, repro. 473.; Soutine, Storran Gallery, London, 1938, no. 11; School of Paris: Picasso and his Contemporaries, Lefevre Gallery, London, no. 41, 1945; Soutine, 1895-1943, Gimpel Fils, London, 1947, no. 13; and Dunow & Tuchman, The Impact Of Chaim Soutine: De Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, Bacon, Published by: Hatje Cantz 2002, cover.

6 Feb 1952 - 1 Dec 1973 Kunstmuseum, Bern

15 Nov 2004 - 12 July 2010 National Gallery of Art, Washington

12 July 2010 - 30 March 2012 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

30 March 2012 - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

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