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The street

Haim Soutine (Chaïm Soutine) 1923 – 1924
Oil on canvas, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

Selected events

For years after his arrival in Paris, Chaim Soutine was a struggling and often starving artist. This changed in 1923, when the wealthy American industrialist Dr.Albert C.Barnes bought a large number of his paintings. The vibrantly colored winding street in Ceret in the south of France seems to be leading somewhere bright, reflecting the artist's new-found fortune.