In Ein Harod,Chaim Soutine meets Israeliart Exhibit isshowcasingworks by the greatpainter,who left mark on Israeliartists some of whose works are on display

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Chaim Soutine,Self-Portrait,ca. 1916. IgaelTumarkin, Homage to Soutine from the seriesButchers Chaim Soutine,Girl in Blue ca. 1938-39. CollectionoftheIsrael CollectionofTelAviv Museum ofArt bequest,ofMala Silson,New York (1968-69),restored (1992). CollectionofTelAviv Museum ofArt Museum, Jerusalem,giftofEdwin and Grace Hokin Chicago

“Gladioli” about four his well-known able works of art that are Soutine’s Naama Riba years paintings: work, Shapira $1ST$museums$1ST$said he would not have־$1ST$Soutine$1ST$Curator Shapira: “The Pastry Chef,”“Page on loan from major muse־ago. He lectures about Sou painting“Gladioli” tine$2ND$Soutine$2ND$and periodicallyholds Boy at Cafe Maxim” and ums$2ND$museums$2ND$abroad is extremely forgone the other works ”.$1ST$dedicated$1ST$‘ShowingSoutine paintingfrom his animal costly and complicated; shown in “Naked Soul־by Chaim Soutine fell “Soutiniana” events dedi $$1ST$power$1ST־Theinto the hands of Ya- cated$2ND$dedicated$2ND$to the artist.Tatz was is spiritual carcass series. most small institutions of “That’s the entire pow $$1ST$explained.$1ST־$1ST$kibbutz$1ST$ Soutine was considered this kind have neither the er$2ND$power$2ND$of this show,” he ex־niv Shapira,curator of the excited to hear that the kib $$1ST$wonderful$1ST־$1ST$influential$1ST$time, staff or expertiseto plained.$2ND$explained.$2ND$“Soutine is won־$1ST$organizing$1ST$experience.When to be one of the most influ־Mishkan Museum of Art at butz$2ND$kibbutz$2ND$museum was organiz $$1ST$involved.$1ST־$1ST$almost$1ST$an exhibition dedicated ential$2ND$influential$2ND$artists in deal with the in־Ein in the al Harod, north, ing$2ND$organizing$2ND$ stand in working procedures derful$2ND$wonderful$2ND$artist and showing most$2ND$almost$2ND$by accident. Shapira to Soutine;he promised to you during the interwar volved.$2ND$involved.$2ND$The current show is him at the Mishkan is had been lookingfor works come for the openingand to front of his work, years. His works, some of thus centered around works spiritualexperience. $1ST$$1ST$When stand in front־$1ST$millions$1ST$loaned from Jerusalem’s Is־by Soutine (1893-1943),the bring “Gladioli” with him, which have fetched mil understand you famous Jewish artistwhose Tatz also brought along you lions$2ND$millions$2ND$of dollars,are today rael$2ND$Israel$2ND$Museum, the of work by Soutine,you $1ST$Israeli$1ST$somethingabout scattered among number Museum of Art and the understand something־work is the subjectof an portraitof Soutine by Is $$1ST$something$1ST־exhibition that opened last raeli$2ND$Israeli$2ND$artist Sima Slonim, of important museums, Hecht Collection in Haifa, about death and some $1ST$collectors$1ST$thing$2ND$something$2ND$about life at the־$1ST$Metropolitan$1ST$as well as from privatecol־$1ST$museum,$1ST$who met Soutine in Paris in death and about life including the Metropoli־week at the kibbutz muse entitled “Naked Soul: the 1930s. wanted to tan$2ND$Metropolitan$2ND$Museum of Art in New lectors$2ND$collectors$2ND$in Israeland abroad. same time. um,$2ND$museum,$2ND$ (“He at the same time.’ Chaim Soutine and Israeli marry her,”Shapirasaid). York,the Pompidou and Or- The Mishkan show is “They’vesaid he was $$1ST$Shapira$1ST־$1ST$particularly$1ST$Shapiracurated the Ein angeriemuseums in Paris, actuallydivided into three ‘painters’painter,”’Sha־Art.” “Gladioli” was par $1ST$Shapira:$1ST$Harod show, on through brations,and in cooperation the Tate Modern in London parts.Near the entrance is pira$2ND$Shapira$2ND$continued. “When־ticularly$2ND$particularly$2ND$importantfor Sha $$1ST$significance$1ST־$1ST$County$1ST$and the StedelijkMuseum displayof art by Chaim understood the signifi־pira:$2ND$Shapira:$2ND$His show features March 21,togetherwith Su- with the Los AngelesCoun ,$1ST$Harod$1ST$cance$2ND$significance$2ND$of that expression־$1ST$legendary$1ST$in Amsterdam. Some of his Atar,founder of the Ein Ha־photographof Soutine after ria Sadekova,chief curator ty$2ND$County$2ND$Museum of Art, legend his death,with bouquetof of the Pushkin Museum in ary$2ND$legendary$2ND$curator Yona Fischer paintingscan be found in rod$2ND$Harod$2ND$museum, who himself decided to curate an $1ST$Israel$1ST$privatecollections. was influenced by Soutine. exhibition that shows his־white gladioliplacedon his Moscow and with Batsheva organized show at the Is body. Goldman-Ida, the curator rael$2ND$Israel$2ND$Museum in Jerusalem For small museum To the leftare paintingsby influence over Israeliart. $$1ST$exhibitions$1ST־$1ST$special$1ST$There have been exhibi־$1ST$insuring$1ST$Soutine,displayedin spe־$1ST$Jewish$1ST$for specialprojectsat the featuringsome 50 works by such as the Mishkan, in־When visited the Jew“ cial$2ND$special$2ND$sterileenvironment for tions$2ND$exhibitions$2ND$that showed how he ־ish$2ND$Jewish$2ND$Museum in New York, Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Soutine,includingsome of suring$2ND$insuring$2ND$and shippingvalu the curator told me about The exhibition features just reasons of preservation.At influenced American and Jewish man by the name 18 examples of Soutine’s the entrance to thisgallery European artists. This $1ST$sculptures$1ST$show constitutes global־of Shmuel Tatz who owned oeuvre; none of them among are paintingsand sculp $1ST$recounted.$1ST$his best known. The last tures$2ND$sculptures$2ND$by artistswho were innovation for collectors־art by Soutine,”Shapirare counted.$2ND$recounted.$2ND$“I called him and time show in Israel was his contemporaries in and researchers.” $$1ST$catalog,$1ST־$1ST$exhibition$1ST$dedicated to the - Paris,among them Chana In the exhibition’s cat־said was doingan exhibi $1ST$Harod.$1ST$born artist who spent most Orloff,Jacques Lifschitz alog,$2ND$catalog,$2ND$curator Sadekova־tion$2ND$exhibition$2ND$on Soutine at Ein Ha rod.$2ND$Harod.$2ND$He said Soutine was of his lifein Paris,was more and Michel Kikoine. The describes Soutine’s life. his life.” than 50 years ago, in 1968. galleryon the lower level He was born in 1893 (or -$1ST$artists$1ST$1894) in the town of Smi־$1ST$Israel’s$1ST$ showcases 43 Israeli art־$1ST$physiotherapist$1ST$Back then,as part of Isra־Tatz, physiothera pist$2ND$physiotherapist$2ND$by profession,bought el’s$2ND$Israel’s$2ND$20th anniversarycele- ists$2ND$artists$2ND$three generationsof lavichy, outside .$1ST$Soutine.$1ST$in present-day Belarus־them, influenced by Sou tine.$2ND$Soutine.$2ND$ Michel Kikoine wrote in $$1ST$immediately$1ST־his memoirs that immedi ‘A painters’painter’ ately$2ND$immediately$2ND$after he and Soutine arrived in Paris,on June Even ifhe had the option 14, 1912, they rushed to of displaying100 piecesof the Gamier opera house to see Verdi’s “Aida” being regularfamilylifewith her. likesigningthem.” Soutine” sculpture,which first three were painted $$1ST$embarked$1ST־$1ST$outbreak$1ST$Israeli artists who were is part of Tumarkin’s before 1925, when he em־performed. In late 1939,after the out $1ST$however,$1ST$influenced by Soutine,and “Butchers” series,and Yosl barked$2ND$embarked$2ND$on his famous series־Soutine settled in at La break$2ND$outbreak$2ND$of World War II,how Ruche (the “Beehive”), ever,$2ND$however,$2ND$Groth was expelled whose works are also on Bergner’s early painting featuringanimal carcasses; residence for artists in from . show at Ein Harod, tended “Homage to Chaim Soutine” the latter do not feature in .$1ST$carcass$1ST$the current exhibition־, where he By this time Soutine’s to paint wild landscapes, (1950),which depicts car $1ST$individuals$1ST$cass$2ND$carcass$2ND$and watermelon. In the catalog,curator־was neighborof Chagall, health was deteriorating,portraitsof wounded indi $$1ST$relates$1ST־$1ST$untitled$1ST$Batsheva Goldman-Ida re־$1ST$animals.$1ST$Also on show is an unti־$1ST$during$1ST$viduals$2ND$individuals$2ND$and bleeding ani־Orloff and Lifschitz. He process exacerbated dur $1ST$formal$1ST$ing$2ND$during$2ND$the war years, as he mals.$2ND$animals.$2ND$ tled$2ND$untitled$2ND$work by Michal Shamir lates$2ND$relates$2ND$how Soutine painted־didn’t applyhimself to for $1ST$generation$1ST$that references Rembrandt: that series: “He purchased־mal$2ND$formal$2ND$studies,preferringto wandered from place to Among the firstgenera $1ST$introduced$1ST$tion$2ND$generation$2ND$of those influenced sculpturein the form of an entire beef carcass at־$1ST$studying$1ST$place.In 1940, he was in־devote his time to study ing$2ND$studying$2ND$on his own, inspiredby troduced$2ND$introduced$2ND$to Marie-Berthe by him were Menachem beef carcass, made of the nearby meat market $$1ST$studio,”$1ST־the Louvre’s collection. In Aurenche, former wife of Shemi, Moshe Castel and gummy candies affixed to and hung it up in his stu 1915, Lifschitz introduced German artist Max Ernst, Moshe Mokady, whose wood structure. When it dio,”$2ND$studio,”$2ND$she writes. $1ST$reflect$1ST$was created in 2008, it was “When the meat began to־$1ST$mistress$1ST$expressivelandscapes re־Soutine to the Italian-Jew- who became Soutine’s mis $1ST$candies$1ST$go bad, he sprayed it with־$1ST$managed$1ST$flect$2ND$reflect$2ND$the mark the Parisian multicolored,but the can־$1ST$Modigliani,$1ST$tress$2ND$mistress$2ND$and eventuallyman־ish artistAmedeo Modigli ani,$2ND$Modigliani,$2ND$who in turn introduced aged$2ND$managed$2ND$to get him smuggled painterlefton them. dies$2ND$candies$2ND$have aged and are now fresh blood to ‘freshen it Soutine to Pablo Picasso back into Paris,in 1943. But shades of black-brown. up.’ One day, inspectors $1ST$Modigliani$1ST$on August of that year, Rembrandt In addition,Mishkan is from the department of־and other notables. Modi ,$1ST$Soutine$1ST$after extensive surgery, exhibiting “Slaughtered health knocked on the door־gliani$2ND$Modigliani$2ND$also introduced Sou and Reisman $1ST$Georges$1ST$he died. Among those who Chicken” by Ori Reisman, intent on cartingaway the־tine$2ND$Soutine$2ND$to art dealers Georg es$2ND$Georges$2ND$Cheron and Leopold attended his funeral at the The show includes four from the 1960s;“Lea Nikel’s hazard. Soutine looked at $$1ST$deathly$1ST־Zborowski,and urged the Montparnasse cemetery Soutine paintings related “Slaughtered Chicken” the men and turned death latter to promote Soutine’s was Picasso. to one of his main themes (1953);and “Slaughtered ly$2ND$deathly$2ND$pale.‘Be kind,’[hisart $$1ST$assistant,$1ST־paintings. In 1950, the Museum of dead animals: “Calf and Goose” by Michael Gross dealer] Zborowski’s as Zborowski dispatched Modern Art in New York Red Curtain,”“Herrings (1959),which also graces sistant,$2ND$assistant,$2ND$Paulette Jourdain, Soutine to the town of launched an exhibition and Bottle of Chianti,” the cover of the exhibition pleaded.‘You see that he is Ceret, where he painted of 75 of Soutine’s works, “Rabbit and Two Forks” catalog,which is in Hebrew paintingthe beef. He has to $$1ST$inspectors$1ST־landscapes.One of them, which did much to boost and “Plucked Goose.” The and English. finish his canvas.’ The in dated 1920, has come to spectors$2ND$inspectors$2ND$relented,injected $$1ST$ammonia$1ST־the Mishkan show from the the carcass with an ammo $1ST$Museum.$1ST$ nia$2ND$ammonia$2ND$deodorant and returned־collection of the Israel Mu seum.$2ND$Museum.$2ND$ the next day to fumigatethe In 1923, Soutine met studio.” American collector Albert According to Goldman- $$1ST$recounted$1ST־Barnes, who purchased 52 Ida,Jacques Lifschitz re $1ST$Zborowski.$1ST$ counted$2ND$recounted$2ND$that “Soutine would־of his works from Zborows ki.$2ND$Zborowski.$2ND$The Philadelphia-based buy piecesof meat to paint $$1ST$rotten,$1ST־Barnes Foundation still and let them become rot owns many of Soutine’s ten,$2ND$rotten,$2ND$because he liked the works,alongwith paintings colors.The result was such $$1ST$unbearable.”$1ST־by Picasso,Henri Matisse, stench that itwas unbear $$1ST$Edgar$1ST$ able.”$2ND$unbearable.”$2ND־Vincent van Gogh and Ed $$1ST$Israelis$1ST־gar$2ND$Edgar$2ND$Degas. Among the works of Is After meeting Barnes, raelis$2ND$Israelis$2ND$who were influenced Soutine had shows in the by him and also featured $$1ST$Tumarkin’s$1ST־United States and Paris. in the show are IgaelTu Financiallysuccessful,he markin’s$2ND$Tumarkin’s$2ND$1969 “Homage to $1ST$Amsterdam,$1ST$ Soutine” sculpture,which־also traveled to Amster dam,$2ND$Amsterdam,$2ND$where he saw works is part of Tumarkin’s at the Rijksmuseum by “Butchers” series,and Yosl Rembrandt, which made Bergner’s early painting lastingimpressionon him. “Homage to Chaim Soutine” $$1ST$carcass$1ST־$1ST$Depression$1ST$ (1950),which depicts car־However, with the De pression$2ND$Depression$2ND$of 1929,Zborowski Michael Gross,SlaughteredGoose,1959. The Genyand Hanina BrandesArt Collection,TelAviv cass$2ND$carcass$2ND$and watermelon. $$1ST$untitled$1ST־went bankrupt and Soutine Also on show is an unti $1ST$otherwise$1ST$ tled$2ND$untitled$2ND$work by Michal Shamir־had to find new patrons: the influence of the other :$1ST$Indeed,$1ST$ that references Rembrandt־They were Madeleine and wise$2ND$otherwise$2ND$reserved artist. In Marcellin Castaings,whose deed,$2ND$Indeed,$2ND$despitehis ties with sculpturein the form of $1ST$visited$1ST$famous artistsand wealthy beef carcass, made of־estate near Chartres he vis ited$2ND$visited$2ND$in the summers of the business people,Sadekova gummy candies affixed to early1930s. writes, Soutine remained wood structure. When it $1ST$tumultuous$1ST$ was created in 2008, it was־isolated within his own tu $$1ST$candies$1ST־multuous$2ND$tumultuous$2ND$inner world. multicolored,but the can $1ST$selective$1ST$ dies$2ND$candies$2ND$have aged and are now־He preferred quiet,se“ In 1915,Jacques lective$2ND$selective$2ND$acquaintancewith shades of black-brown. Lifschitzintroduced friends with whom he could In addition,Mishkan is engage in philosophical exhibiting “Slaughtered Soutine to the conversation about what he Chicken” by Ori Reisman, Italian-Jewish artist had read or seen. Until his from the 1960s;“Lea Nikel’s last day,he was recluse, “Slaughtered Chicken” Amedeo Modigliani,absorbed in his inner world. (1953);and “Slaughtered $1ST$company$1ST$ Goose” by Michael Gross־His dislike for human com who in turn pany$2ND$company$2ND$was so strong that he (1959),which also graces $1ST$exhibition$1ST$ the cover of the exhibition־introduced Soutine even avoided his exhibi tion$2ND$exhibition$2ND$openings,”the curator catalog,which is in Hebrew to Pablo Picasso notes. and English. and other notables. As the Soutine’s patron Marcellin Castaingswrote: “The presentationof his In 1937,at Cafe du Dome paintingswas, for him, an .$1ST$Montparnasse,$1ST$excruciating experience־on the Boulevard du Mont parnasse,$2ND$Montparnasse,$2ND$Soutine met He did not want exhibitions woman named Gerda of his work to be curated in Groth, divorced Jewish his lifetime,he did not want refugee from . to see his paintingsframed, For the firsttime,the artist he was not interestedin their settled into something of mode of hangingand did not