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Deux Personnages (Two Figures)

Maker

(artist)
1871-1942

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1937-1942

Medium

black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 44 cm
Width: 58 cm

Accession Number

LD.2020.HK.12

Mode of Acquisition

Karshan Collection, long-term loan, 2020

Credit

Promised gift by Linda Karshan in memory of her husband, Howard Karshan. On long-term loan to The Courtauld Gallery, London

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Label Text

Soutter worked in a spontaneous manner, using a brush and his fingers dipped in ink, to create 'Two Figures'. Gently comical, the character on the left seems enraged by the one on the right thumbing his nose at him. They are set against crossed and curving lines that add movement and structure to the scene. These lines also create a repeating decorative effect, as if the composition might be imagined as part of a larger frieze.

Provenance

Galerie Benador, Geneva; Galerie Huber, Geneva, 1990; Brigitte Büdenhölzer, Emmendingen; purchased there by Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, February 1990; purchased there by Howard Karshan (1933-2017), 7 December 1990 [invoice in file]; Promised gift by Linda Karshan in memory of her husband, Howard Karshan. On long-term loan to The Courtauld Gallery, London.

Exhibition History

Modern Drawings: The Karshan Gift, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/11/2021-09/01/2022

Inner Worlds Outside, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 28/04/2006-25/06/2006

Louis Soutter et les modernes, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 28/09/2002-05/01/2003; Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 21/02/2003-04/05/2003

Literature

Modern Drawings: The Karshan Gift, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 Nov. 2021 - 9 Jan. 2022
cat. no. 7
Fig. p. p. 61, detail on p. 62

Louis Soutter et les modernes, Basel and Lausanne, 2002-03
cat. no. 227
Fig. p. repr.

Wandeler, C., Supplément au catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Louis Soutter de Michel Thévoz, Lausanne 1991
vol. 1, pp. 176-77, supp. 90

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