Still Life with Rayfish, ca. 1924, Oil on canvas, 32 × 39 3/8 in. (81.3 × 100 cm), Paintings, Chaim Soutine (French (born Lithuania), Smilovitchi 1893–1943 Paris), In this unsettling adaptation of Jean-Siméon Chardin's 'The Rayfish' (ca. 1725–26), Soutine paired the fish's bloody entrails with a smiling, almost humanlike mouth. He reanimated the dead ray by concentrating on its vibrant underbelly and used thick, fluid brushstrokes to suggest slick flesh
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Life, Rayfish, ca, 1924, Oil, canvas, 32, 39 3/8, 81.3, 100 cm, Paintings, Chaim Soutine, French, born Lithuania, Smilovitchi, 1893–1943, Paris, unsettling adaptation, Jean-Simé Chardin, 1725–26, Soutine paired, fish, bloody entrails, smiling, almost humanlike mouth, reanimated, dead ray, concentrating, vibrant underbelly, thick, fluid brushstrokes, suggest slick, flesh
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