Paris · Painting
Soutine's Turkey with Tomatoes
Musée de l'Orangerie · Paris, France
Chaïm Soutine's Turkey with Tomatoes belongs to his series of dead-animal still lifes. Beneath the turkey sits a pile of tomatoes — an odd pairing at first glance, but one with its own logic: the tomatoes carry Soutine's favorite red, while the white cloth beneath them carries his second-favorite color, white.
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