Claire Bernardi

Simonetta Fraquelli

"I've always been crazy about Soutine--all of his paintings," said Willem de Kooning in 1977, speaking about Lithuanian artist Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Of all the abstract expressionists, de Kooning was the only one who continued to praise Soutine throughout his career and to credit him with an influence on his work. But how much was de Kooning's approach impacted by Soutine? Soutine de Kooning dramatically juxtaposes the two artists and shows Soutine's decisive influence on the development of de Kooning's art. De Kooning first discovered Soutine's work before World War II in the galleries of New York. The expressive force of Soutine's painting, coupled with his image as an "accursed" artist struggling with the vicissitudes and excesses of bohemian life in Paris during the interwar years, exerted a powerful influence on a new generation of postwar painters in the United States. It was during these years that de Kooning matured his own personal form of expressionism, which, with its visceral brushstrokes and heavy impasto, lies somewhere between figuration and abstraction. And a significant turning point in de Kooning's work, evident in his celebrated Women paintings of the early 1950s, coincides with his in-depth study of Soutine at retrospectives at New York's Museum of Modern Art and his visit to the Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia. This lavishly illustrated book traces the development of that influence, paying particular attention to the posthumous retrospective of Soutine's work that was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1950.

A Meeting of Minds

Soutine / de Kooning

Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat

Cet ouvrage est publié à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée à Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, du 25 juin au 10 septembre 2017, puis à Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, du 11 octobre 2017 au 22 janvier 2018.00Précurseur de l'art moderne, Paul Gauguin a exploré, outre la peinture, les arts les plus divers : dessin, gravure, sculpture, céramique. Les chefs-d'oeuvre réunis mettent en avant le travail de l'artiste sur la matière ainsi que son processus de création. Il va bâtir son art sur la répétition de thématiques et de motifs récurrents.00Edition en anglais publié par le Art Institute de Chicago.

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