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View of Cagnes
View of Cagnes is an oil painting by Chaïm Soutine. It dates from 1924 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Subject & Meaning
The composition focuses on buildings, capturing the structural elements of the locale rather than specific narrative events or figures.
Painted in 1924, View of Cagnes depicts an architectural scene situated within a town. The composition focuses on buildings, capturing the structural elements of the locale rather than specific narrative events or figures. As a landscape work, the painting represents Soutine's engagement with the physical environment of Cagnes, utilizing oil on canvas to render the urban topography.
The available records identify the subject strictly as a townscape featuring buildings, without attributing further specific symbolic programs or allegorical meanings to the imagery.
Technique & Style
View of Cagnes is an oil painting executed on canvas by Chaïm Soutine in 1924. The work measures 60.3 cm in height and 73.3 cm in width. Soutine's handling of the medium is evident in the depiction of a town and buildings, characteristic of his expressive style. The physical support consists of canvas, while the paint layer comprises oil pigments applied to this surface.
History & Provenance
View of Cagnes is an oil painting on canvas executed by Chaïm Soutine in 1924. The work measures 60.3 cm in height and 73.3 cm in width. It depicts a townscape featuring buildings, consistent with the artist's focus on architectural subjects during this period.
The painting is currently held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains part of the institution's permanent holdings.
The painting View of Cagnes is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it is catalogued under the accession number 1985.251. It has been exhibited as part of the museum's European Paintings galleries, with its presence documented in the institution's European Paintings catalogue (1985).
Overview
Created in 1924, View of Cagnes is an oil painting by Chaïm Soutine, a painter linked to the School of Paris. The canvas presents a small town scene, foregrounded by buildings and trees and receded by distant mountains. The palette is restrained, dominated by muted blues, greens and earthy browns, conveying a subdued atmosphere.
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Chaïm Soutine (French:; Russian: Хаим Соломонович Сутин, romanized: Khaim Solomonovich Sutin; Yiddish: חײם סוטין, romanized: Chaim Sutin; 13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin…
