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Chaïm Soutine - Le Petit Pâtissier, 1922, 1923

Oil on canvas 54 x 97 cm

Expressionism

📍Museum de l'Orangerie , Paris (France)


  • "An extraordinary pastry chef, fascinating, real and gruesome, gifted with an immense and magnificent ear, surprising and perfect: a masterpiece." - Paul Guillaume

I often think that an artist's painting reflects the painter's true personality.

The Expressionists, a movement I have always loved with great passion since my childhood, portray more than human figures or landscapes; they portray souls, they portray emotions, feelings, they express their personality and their way of seeing the world from the depths of their being, in the most sincere, shy and reserved way in which to expose their entire existence . Soutine's paintings speak for themselves; his free, distorted strokes, with an air of ugliness, of great expressive force and character, make his work something captivating for my senses. The painting of the young pastry chef is one of my favorites because of how his limbs and face, somewhat disfigured, have been portrayed. The whole thing is somewhat strange, terrifying and familiar, which causes a bit of enigma in me, perhaps that is why I like this painting so much.

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