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Ben Uri acquires Soutine portrait

July 19, 2012 12:56
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BySimon Rocker, Simon Rocker

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A portrait by one of the 20th century’s most important Jewish artists has been bought by the Ben Uri, the London Jewish Museum of Art.

La Soubrette, “Waiting Maid”, painted by Chaim Soutine around 1933, would go for an estimated £1 million to £1.5 million art at auction.

It will be only the sixth Soutine painting, and the only second portrait by him, in a public collection in the UK and will be unveiled at a special exhibition in autumn.

Ben Uri chairman David Glasser said: “This is a stunning addition to the collection and sits comfortably alongside the world class examples acquired by Ben Uri over the past decade including seminal works by Marc Chagall, George Grosz, Max Liebermann and David Bomberg, Sir Jacob Epstein Mark Gertler."