Soutine / de Kooning: A Meeting of Minds, Fraquelli Simonetta, Bernardi Claire

Soutine / de Koonings dramatic juxtaposition of the two artists reveals Soutines decisive influence on the development of de Koonings art. The expressive force of Soutines painting, coupled with his image as an accursed artist struggling with the vicissitudes and excesses of bohemian life in Paris during the interwar years, held a powerful sway over a new generation of postwar painters in the United States--it was during these years that de Kooning matured his own personal form of expressionism.