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Description: Portrait of Madeleine Castaing Artist: Chaim Soutine (French (born Lithuania), Smilovitchi 1893–1943 Paris) Date: ca. 1929 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 39 3/8 × 28 3/4 in. (100 × 73 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967 Soutine met the successful Parisian interior decorator and antiquarian Madeleine Castaing (1894-1992) in 1920. She and her husband became one of the artist's most important patrons during the following decade. The portrait took six sittings in the artist's Paris studio. Castaing's fidgeting hands, awkwardly positioned legs, and tense facial expression convey her impatience and discomfort while posing.
Title: Portrait of Madeleine Castaing
Credit: http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP72106.jpg
Author: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication
License: CC0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
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