Rare Vintage 1950s Chaïm Soutine "Woman with a Blue Apron" Swiss Portrait Art Print

A unique vintage reproduction of Chaim Soutine's Woman with a Blue Apron (1928) printed in Switzerland in the early fifties. Image (4" x 10 1/2") tipped in to heavy vintage cream paper.

Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement and modern art while living and working in Paris.

Notes on the colorplate at the time of printing: "Soutine has a way of giving his models an air of callous indifference that casts a far from kindly light on humanity in general. Indeed the people he paints, with their lethargic gestures, wandering gaze and somewhat bovine acquiescence in their ugliness, look almost sub-human. Yet in all these work here is a prodigiously exciting quality, such is the emotional drive, the fierce emotion we feel behind them. In these pictures (we hardly dare to use the term " portraits') form is more clearly stated than in the landscapes; perhaps the human presence made Soutine feel the need for a measure of discipline in order to express the inner life, if any, of his model."