Paris Oise Enchères announces the rediscovery of Portrait of Utrillo, a lost painting by Chaim Soutine, found in a French attic and offering ...

In 1910, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), in the shtetl of Smilavičy, in present-day Belarus, asked a fellow villager to pose for a portrait. Such graven images were considered a heresy in the shtetl, and ...

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations ...

Chaim Soutine, "Le faison au chou" (1926/27), oil on canvas at Galerie Thomas. (photo by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) MIAMI — Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was somewhat of a super star to the Abstract ...

There is little stylistic development in Chaim Soutine's work: He began as an Expressionist (albeit one cognizant of Cubist space and composition) and ended as one. And, as an Expressionist, he was an ...

When Amedeo Modigliani painted his fellow artist Chaïm Soutine in 1916 and again the following year, the resulting works were more or less orderly, the young man’s features carefully hemmed in by dark ...

PAINTING Triump of the ClumsiestIn the act of painting, Chaim Soutine was something to behold. For months, he would ponder the idea for a painting, then in a wild outburst fling the paint onto the ...

Not a single painting by Chaim Soutine hangs in the Museum of Modern Art. This is true despite his pivotal influence on major artists over the past half-century. And a show pairing his work with ...

Chaim Soutine wasn’t very good at friendship. Though his friend and fellow artist Amedeo Modigliani championed his genius, Soutine—who hated to be indebted to anyone—returned the favor after ...

The Memphis-born American Jewish novelist Steve Stern, 74, has long been inspired by Jewish folklore and a dream-like Yiddish literary tradition in the vein of I. L. Peretz, Itzik Manger, and Lamed ...

In “The Village Idiot,” Steve Stern resurrects Chaim Soutine and the sordid eccentricities of his milieu. By Dan Piepenbring When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn ...