It’s a Crime!
Peter Campbell, 8 December 1994
Chaim Soutine: Catalogue Raisonné, Vols I-II
by Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow and Klaus Perls.
Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 780 pp., £49.99, December 1993,3 8228 1629 9 Show More
by Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow and Klaus Perls.
Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 780 pp., £49.99, December 1993,
“... Céret obviously sustains an account of the painter which emphasises the emotional and irrational. Esti Dunow writes here that ‘much criticism, from early on ... has engendered and perpetuated certain misconceptions.’ There is, she says, ‘a tendency to see Soutine as an undisciplined, almost crazed artist, outside history, whose growing reverence ... ”