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"tombstone": "Still Life with Rayfish, 1923. Cha\u00efm Soutine (Russian, 1893\u20131943). Oil on canvas; framed: 111.8 x 94.3 x 11.8 cm (44 x 37 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.); unframed: 80.5 x 64.5 cm (31 11/16 x 25 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1951.357",
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"description": "Chaim Soutine. Israel Museum, 91710 Jerusalem, Israel (April 26-August 14, 1998); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (September 17, 1998-January 3, 1999); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (February 14-May 2, 1999).",
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
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"title": "Cha\u00efm Soutine (1893-1943), l'ordre du chaos",
"description": "Cha\u00efm Soutine (1893-1943), l'ordre du chaos. Mus\u00e9e de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (October 2, 2012-January 21, 2013).",
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"title": "Cha\u00efm Soutine - Against the Current",
"description": "Cha\u00efm Soutine - Against the Current. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany (organizer) (September 1, 2023-January 14, 2024); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbelbaek, Denmark (February 9-July 14, 2024); Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (August 16-December 1, 2024) https://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/en/ausstellung/chaim-soutine.",
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"description": "(Paul Guillaume [1891-1953], Paris, probably sold to Jacques Doucet",
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"One of Soutine\u2019s dealers, Guillaume handled much of the artist\u2019s output in the 1920s. Guillaume also had his own collection, most of which was acquired by the French state in the 1960s and is now at the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie. It is unclear in which capacity Guillaume handled the Cleveland Soutine.
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"Doucet, the influential French couturier, amassed an extensive art, furniture, and book collection. When in his collection the Soutine hung next to Picasso\u2019s Tete de l\u2019Arlequin and Les Desmoiselles d\u2019Avignon.
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"description": "The mutilated ray fish in this painting is strung across the top of the canvas, as if tortured or crucified, as its internal organs spill forth. The fish seems to express human anguish, transforming it into a powerful metaphor for suffering. Below the fish is a kettle that seems to twist away from the fish. Cha\u00efm Soutine frequently depicted animal carcasses in his paintings, highlighting their vulnerability and the violence of their deaths. Such paintings may allude to his own despair, from his youth as the 10th of 11 children of parents in poverty in a small Orthodox Jewish community in what is now Belarus, to his early years in Paris as a struggling artist.",
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"citation": "Raynal, Maurice. Modern French Painters. 1928.",
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"citation": "Waldemar, George. Soutine. Paris: \u00c9ditions Le Triangle, 1928.",
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"citation": "Mus\u00e9e du Petit Palais (Paris). Les maitres de l'art ind\u00e9pendant: 1895-1937. Paris: Editions Arts & M\u00e9tiers Graphiques, 1937.",
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"citation": "Ditner, David C. \"Chaim Soutine's Still Life with Rayfish.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 2 (1980): 41-49.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 42; Mentioned: p. 41-49",
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"citation": "Tuchman, Maurice, Esti Dunow, and Klaus Perls. Chaim Soutine (1893-1943): catalogue raisonn\u00e9 = Werkverzeichnis. K\u00f6ln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1993.",
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"citation": "Degel, Kirsten, and Malou Wedel Bruun, eds. Cha\u00efm Soutine: Mod Str\u00f8mmen. Humleb\u00e6k [Denmark]: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2023.",
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