Chaim Soutine
Born Minsk (Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1893; died Paris, 1943 · c. 1926
Dead Fowl
Chaim Soutine Born Minsk (Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1893; died Paris, 1943
Dead Fowl
c. 1926
Chaim Soutine's 'Dead Bird' (c. 1926) is one of his nervous, thickly painted still lifes of slaughtered game — a plucked bird hanging from a nail in front of a blue ground, rendered in Soutine's visceral Expressionist brushwork. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago