Hopefully he painted in mid-winter. Soutine was chronically short of cash
for things like heating, which probably prolonged his subject's viability.
Oh god, an attack of acute nostalgia for Paris in winter.
Mark
>From: Trevor Joyce <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Snapshot
>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:15:05 +0100
>
>Anton:
>
>Was it Chaim Soutine bought the carcass of an ox in a butcher's and had it
>hanging in his studio for a couple of weeks, rapidly decaying, as he
>painted
>version after version of it? Monet's repeated takes on haystacks and
>cathedral facades seem comparatively wimpy.
>
>Best,
>
>Trevor
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