Rare Vintage 1950s Chaïm Soutine "The Herrings" Swiss Art Print

A charming art print of Chaim Soutine's The Herrings (1916) printed in Switzerland in the early fifties. Image (7 7/8" x 10 1/4") 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 building up an art world of his own, Soutine usually completely disregarded the art movements of the day. However sometimes, if very rarely, one or other of his canvases makes us realize that he was aware of what was going on: of the austerity of Cubism, the tempestuous brio of the Fauves. This is one of the few pictures by him in which echoes of this sort can be discerned; something in the drawing and composition reminds us of the Cubists or certain canvases by Derain in his archaic phase."