Rare Vintage 1950s Chaïm Soutine "Landscape" Swiss Art Print

A rare vintage reproduction of Chaim Soutine's expressive Landscape (1919) printed in Switzerland in the early fifties. Image (10 1/4" x 8 1/8") 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: "In Soutine's pictures the subject is only a jumping-off point and the dramatic element owes nothing to the theme he happens to have picked on. It is implicit in the artist's temperament and it leads him to convert a charming town on the Mediterranean coast into a scene of primeval chaos, convulsed in the throes of a terrifying nightmare. The color flows in broad streaks, as it comes from the tube, forming a thick impasto, and has the glow of molten metal."