
Art Institute of Chicago
Dead Fowl
Chaim Soutine · 1926
Provenance
Ownership history
- Madame Juliette Guillaume, Paris, by May 10, 1937 [this and the following according to Valentine Gallery sales records, May 1937 and email from Julia May Boddewyn, June 18, 2007, copies in curatorial file]; sold through Valentine Gallery, New York to the Art Institute of Chicago, May 10, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Valentine Gallery, Paintings by Soutine, February 3–22, 1936, n.p., cat. 12, as Le Dandon, n.d.
- Palm Beach, FL., Society of the Four Arts, February 16–March 9, 1944.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, May 23–June 22, 1947, p. 39, as Dead Fowl, 1926 or 1927.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Soutine, October 31, 1950–January 7, 1951, pp. 71 (ill.) and 113, as Rooster, c. 1926; traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art, January 30–March 18, 1951.
- Milwaukee, Jewish Community Center, Dedication Exhibition: Twentieth Century Art by Jewish Artists, January 30–February 20, 1955, n.p., cat. 59, as Dead Fowl, n.d.
- Chicago, Arts Club, Chaim Soutine: Paintings, October 1–31, 1956, n.p., cat. 46, as Dead Fowl, 1926 or 1927.
- Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Soutine, April 27–September 17, 1973, pp. 6 and 29, cat. 24 (ill.), as Le dindon, 1924.
- Munster, Germany, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Chaim Soutine, 1893-1943, December 13, 1981–February 28, 1982, pp. 208 and 246, cat. 65 (ill.), as Gerupfter Truthahn, 1926; traveled to Tübingen, Kunsthalle, March 26–May 31, 1982, London, Hayward Gallery, July 14–August 22, 1982, and Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, August 31– October 31, 1982.
- Osaka, Japan, Ōsaka Shiritsu Bijutsuka, Exposition Yuzo Saheki et les peintres de l'École de Paris, August 12–September 24, 1989, n.p., cat. 137 (ill.), as Dinde plumée et pendue devant une table, 1926; traveled to the Hiroshima Bijutsukan, September 25–November 3, 1989, and Yokohama, Sogō Bijutsukan, November 15–December 18, 1989.
- Chicago, Arts Club, The Arts Club of Chicago: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, May 11–June 26, 1992, p. 57 (ill.), as Dead Fowl, 1926.
- Art Institute and Asahi Shimbun (organizers), Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 112, cat. 32, 113 (ill.), as Dead Fowl, 1926; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20–May 29, 1994; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; and Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6–September 25, 1994.
- New York, Jewish Museum, Chaim Soutine: Flesh, May 4–September 16, 2018.
Literature
Published references
- Elie Faure, Soutine (Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès, 1929), pl. 14, as Le Dindon, 1924.
- Valentine Gallery, Paintings by Soutine, exh. cat. (New York: Valentine Gallery, 1936), n.p., cat. 12, as Le Dandon, n.d.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Winterbotham Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1947), p. 39, as Dead Fowl, 1926 or 1927.
- Monroe Wheeler, Soutine, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1950), pp. 71 (ill.) and 113, as Rooster, c. 1926.
- Jack Tworkov, “ The Wandering Soutine,” Art News XLIX:7, part 1 (November 1950), p. 33 (ill.), as Rooster, 1926.
- Margaret Breuning, “The Cataclysmic World of Chaim Soutine,” Art Digest 25:4 (November 15, 1950), p. 11, as Rooster.
- Jewish Community Center, Dedication Exhibition: Twentieth Century Art by Jewish Artists, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Jewish Community Center, 1955), n.p., cat. 59, as Dead Fowl, n.d.
- Arts Club, Chaim Soutine: Paintings, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1956), n.p., cat. 46, as Dead Fowl, 1926 or 1927.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 421, as Dead Fowl, c. 1926.
- The Arts Council of Great Britain, Chaim Soutine, 1893-1943, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1963), p. 23.
- Edward Barry, “A Legacy that Grows—Winterbotham Collection,” The Chicago Tribune (August 25, 1963).
- Renata Negri, Chaim Soutine (Pinacoteca de los genios: La más grandiosa colección de arte del mundo) (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, 1965), n.p., pl. X–XI, as El Gallo, 1926.
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