Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
-



The Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Who was Paul Guillaume?
The Artists
Henri Rousseau: An Interactive Story
 -
-
 -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
Paul Cézanne
Henri Rousseau
Henri Matisse
Amedeo Modigliani
Chaim Soutine
Marie Laurencin
Maurice Utrillo
André Derain
Pablo Picasso
National Gallery of Victoria
-

Chaim Soutine

 

 -
Chaim Soutine - The Room-service Waiter -

 

Chaim Soutine
The Room-service Waiter, c.1927
Oil on canvas
87.0 x 66.0cm
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
© Photo RMN - J.G. Berizzi
© Chaim Soutine, c.1927/ADAGP.
Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney 2001

 

 -
- -

 

Soutine's life had changed radically after the American collector, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, bought many of his canvases in 1923. Having previously known poverty, Soutine now enjoyed a comfortable life and could stay at luxury hotels and spas. At Châtelguyon, Puy-de-Dôme, where he often went to take waters with his friends and patrons Marcellin and Madeline Castaing, he observed the staff and painted the well-known series of bellboys and waiters. Soutine seems to have felt a bond with these despised workers, victims of a rejection he himself had experienced. Through characteristic individuals, such as the room-service waiter of this painting, Soutine evoked the boundless mass of the oppressed.

 

 -
- -

 

© copyright 2001, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia

 

 -