Sonnet: Portrait (in Photo Captions) of Chaim Soutine
Outside the farmhouse in Le Blanc, Soutine and Paulette Jourdain
pose with the dog Riquette, who belonged to the cook, Amélie,
who may have lived over a slaughterhouse in the Vaugirard District
where Soutine may have bought the beef carcass for his paintings
inspired by Rembrandt's "The Slaughtered Ox," 1655, which
Soutine studied carefully at the Louvre. In the mid-1930s Soutine
and Madeleine Castaing stand together in casual clothes in an un-
identified town. Soutine in an open car with Élie Faure and his
daughter Marie Zéline at Faure's home in Prats, summer 1929.
Faure's young son Jean-Paul stands nearby. Henry Miller moved
to Villa Seurat on the day Tropic of Cancer appeared. The center
building is No. 18, where Soutine had an apartment and studio
on the second floor and Henry Miller lived on the floor above him.
Soutine, in a relaxed mood, with his cigarette and a glass of milk.
Hal
Halvard Johnson
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