The Table
About this artwork
An intense oil painting depicting a raw carcass of meat resting on a wooden table, accompanied by a vessel and a dark object. The work is characterized by Soutine's signature thick impasto and emotive, distorted brushwork.
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Chaïm Soutine was notorious for his dedication to realism, even when it became grisly; he famously kept a rotting carcass of meat in his studio to study the colors of decay, eventually alarming his neighbors who contacted the police due to the stench. This work exemplifies his 'meat series,' which was deeply influenced by Rembrandt's 'The Slaughtered Ox' but infused with the heightened, anxious energy of early 20th-century Expressionism.
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The Table
Chaïm Soutine, 1919
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