{"id":1325,"title":"Carcass of Beef","medium":"Oil on canvas","classification":"Paintings","dimension":"45 3/4 x 31 3/4 in. (116.21 x 80.65 cm) (canvas)\r\n58 x 44 1/2 in. (147.32 x 113.03 cm) (outer frame)","object_name":"Painting","continent":"Europe","country":"France","nationality":"Russian Empire","dated":"1926","room":"G377","role":"Artist","signed":"LL in black: Soutine","markings":"Labels on frame:\r\nLeft edge, MIA label: Carcass of Beef / C. Soutine/ 57.12 | \r\nTop edge, MIA loan label: 12/27/67 lent to Charles H. MacNider Museum | \r\n                 MIA loan label:  L56.1549 Lent by Paul Rosenberg | \r\n                 Gallery label: Paul Rosenberg & Co. / 20 East 79th Street /\r\n                 New York 21, NY / RHinelander 4-2340/ Soutine / 5431 Carcass\r\n                 of Beef / 1926 / 45 3/4 x 32/ S.   M.O | \r\n                 Exhibition label: Museum of Modern Art / loan 97.41 /\r\n                 Minneapolis | \r\n                 Exhibition label: the israel museum jerusalem israel /\r\n                 artist soutine / title carcass of beef / lender minneapolis\r\n                 institute of arts / address / return to | \r\nMarks on stretcher and canvas verso:  \r\nLL: (4 export customs stamps) Douane Exportation Paris Centrale | \r\nLL, white chalk:  2280-1 | \r\nTL, written: MS 80 | \r\nUC, written: X88","text":"Chaim Soutine was born in a poor eastern European village and continued to struggle as a young starving artist in Paris. His years of deprivation gave him stomach ulcers, so he abstained from meat and other rich foods. Soutine expressed his ambivalent relationship to food through paintings of butchered animals, which he injected with formaldehyde to prevent from rotting. When the flesh turned gray, he smeared it with fresh cow’s blood to restore its vivid color.","provenance":"?Paul Guillaume (1891–1934), Paris. Dr. Jacques Soubiès, Paris (until 1940, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 13, 1940, no. 88). Mme. Germaine Bignou (by 1945–at least 1951). [Paul Rosenberg and Co., New York, 1953–57; sold, June 13 to Mia","creditline":"Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Winston and an anonymous donor","accession_number":"57.12","artist":"Chaim Soutine","life_date":"French (born Belarus, active France) 1894–1943","department":"European Art","rights_type":"Public Domain","image_width":4847,"image_height":6862,"recent":0,"see_also":[],"sort_number":"57    12","image":"valid","public_access":1,"curator_approved":1,"highlights":0,"Cache_Location":"001000\\300\\20\\1325","Primary_RenditionNumber":"mia_5000443.jpg","Rights_Image_Display":"Full","TitleAlt":"Le Boeuf écorché, Geschlachteter Ochse, Le Veau écorché","restricted":1,"related:audio-stops":[{"title":"Soutine, Carcass of Beef","_id":"1325","objectId":"1325","link":"http://audio-tours.s3.amazonaws.com/p952.mp3","number":"952","type":"audio"}],"mtime":"2026-02-15T06:00:50.993Z"}