Carcass of Beef

Chaim Soutine was born in a poor eastern European village and continued to struggle as a young starving artist in Paris. His years of deprivation gave him stomach ulcers, so he abstained from meat and other rich foods. Soutine expressed his ambivalent relationship to food through paintings of butchered animals, which he injected with formaldehyde to prevent from rotting. When the flesh turned gray, he smeared it with fresh cow’s blood to restore its vivid color.

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Om maleriet

Oplysninger

I samme sal · G377, Minneapolis Institute of Art

I kataloget

Kilder

Self-Portrait

Portrait of a Boy

Portrait of Maria Lani

Still Life with Rayfish

Le tzigane

Le dindon

Nature morte au faisan

Paysage

Study for Improvisation V, 1910

The Promenades of Euclid, 1955

Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh, 1918

Study for Portrait VI, 1953

The Japanese Bridge, c. 1923–25

The Poet with the Birds, 1911

Blind Man's Buff, 1945

Evening Glow, 1915