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"Was Soutine at this time what might be called an abstract expressionist?"
The 56 paintings in the show are hung in three sections, each corresponding to one of the three ways critics have viewed Soutine: Soutine as an untutored "primitive" painter, which is how he was seen in the 1920s; Soutine as a master and the last great hope for traditional painting in France--his reputation in the 1930s; and Soutine as a prophet of Abstract Expressionism, which is what critics thought in the 1940s, when they "rediscovered" him.
It is this third phase that leads to the biggest dislocation in the show, since visitors see the "abstract" paintings of the Céret period last, though they were among the earliest Soutine painted.
The first two phases--from primitive to master--happen to follow pretty much directly from the circumstances of Soutine's life, to the extent that we know them.
The timing of that show, mounted just seven years after Soutine's death, was in one sense perfect and in another highly problematic.
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