Pastry Chef
c. 1923
Artist, French, born Russia (now Belarus), 1893 - 1943
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 64.5 x 48.3 cm (25 3/8 x 19 in.)
framed: 90.1 x 74.3 x 9.5 cm (35 1/2 x 29 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1971.2.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist. Private collection, Switzerland. (Fine Arts Associates/Gerson Gallery, New York).[1] Joseph H. Hazen [1898-1994], New York, by 1956;[2] Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, New York; gift 1971 to NGA.
[1] Provenance prior to donor per deed of gift.
[2] Hazen lent the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its summer exhibition in 1956, according to the Museum Archive, email from 22 August 2023 in curatorial records.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1956
Modern European Paintings from New York Private Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1956.
1966
Paintings from the Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1966-1967, no. 39, repro.
1968
Chaim Soutine, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968, no. 35, repro.
1969
Chaim Soutine, Perls Galleries, New York, no. 8, repro.
1972
Not So Long Ago: Art of the 1920s in Europe and America, University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, 1972-1973, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1981
Extended loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy residence, Bonn, West Germany, 1981-1985.
1989
Soutine, Musée de Chartres, 1989, no. 24, repro.
1996
Extended loan for use by Secretary Robert E. Rubin, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999.
Loan for display with permanent collection, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, 1996-1997.
Bibliography
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 330, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 380, repro.
Inscriptions
upper right: Soutine
Wikidata ID
Q20192469