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Famed Portrait To Be Shown in U.S.For First Time at Cruz L.A. Gallery
Neve Yam, 1974 Mirror StaffSima Slonim’s intensely personal painting of her close friend and lover Chaim Soutine, the painter, will travel from Ein Hod, Israel to Los Angeles as part of Slonim’s one-woman show at Cruz L.A. Gallery. It will be the first time the now-legendary painting has been seen in America. It was first exhibited by Slonim (1910-1999) in 1935 during "L’oeuvre Novelle" at the Niveau Gallery in Paris with works by such contemporaries as Miro, Matisse, De Chirico, Modigliani and Chagall. Subsequently, it was featured in the Paris-Palestine Exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 1971 and was seen most recently in 1993 during a retrospective of Slonim’s work at the Janco-Dada Museum in Ein Hod. This will be the first solo show of her work in Los Angeles. All of the other works in the exhibit were painted in the 1970s and have been described as "savvy and playful," reflecting the joy she found in Israel following her melancholy Paris years. Slonim was born in Jaffa in 1910 and studied with Mokady and Lifvinovsky at the Frankel Studio in Tel Aviv before moving to Paris to study at the Grande Chaumiere Academy. In 1937, she moved to London to teach art privately before returned to Israel to teach at the Degania Alef Regional School. She was among the founders of the Ein Hod art colony in 1953. Her works have been exhibited throughout Europe, the Middle East and North and South America and are part of the permanent collections of the Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and Ein Hod Museums. Born in Lithuania, Soutine moved to Paris at 20 and became part of the then-revolutionary "Paris School," which spawned the first major painters of the 20th century. He died in 1943 at the age of 50. Slonim died in February of this year, but her daughter and grandson will attend the gallery’s reception on Saturday, August 14. 7 to 10 p.m., Cruz L.A. Gallery is located at 211 Windward Avenue in Venice. |
