Rare Vintage 1950s Chaïm Soutine "Choirboy" Swiss Portrait Art Print

A charming and unique reproduction of Chaim Soutine's Choirboy (1928) printed in Switzerland in the early fifties. Image (5" 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 often used small boys as his models: telegraph boys, choirboys, pastrycook's employees. And what tragedies in the making he hints at in his studies of these precocious urchins! Most of them have something shifty in their gaze, an air of bogus innocence. It cannot be said in these cases that the subject had no importance to the artist; he has keyed up the expressiveness of the faces to the point of caricature and we sense alternating moods of cruelty and compassion clashing no less violently than the colors, blazing reds and bluish whites, of the clothes the models wear."