The Houses
1920 Musée de l'Orangerie (Jean Walter-Paul Guillaume Collection)
About this artwork
This oil on canvas painting is part of a series of landscapes Soutine created in the small town of Céret, characterized by distorted architectural forms and intense, swirling brushwork. It is held in the Jean Walter-Paul Guillaume Collection at the Musée de l'Orangerie.
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While living in Céret, Soutine pushed his expressionist style to the limit, often painting for days on end without food or sleep. His radical distortions of the architecture were so severe that some locals were reportedly offended, yet these works became hallmarks of his intense emotional approach to landscape painting.
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The Houses
Chaïm Soutine, 1920
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