The exhibition brings Chaïm Soutine and Ilana Savdie together for the first time, drawing out unexpected affinities in color and gesture.

Before I entered, I asked a question that seemed appropriate, given the way that museums these days seem to tie whatever they’re shilling in the gift shop and restaurant to the art on view. “Would ...

With his canvases depicting remote villages, blood-soaked carcasses and portraits of ordinary people, Chaïm Soutine was Willem de Kooning’s favorite–hands down. “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine — ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...

Chaïm Soutine (French, b. Russia, 1893–1943), "Woman in Pink" (c. 1924), oil on canvas, 28 3/4 × 21 3/8 inches, Saint Louis Art Museum. Given by Sam J. Levin and ...

NEW YORK — A splayed carcass and delicately wrought feathers; shimmering herring and a bleating lamb. Each canvas seems to capture the space between life and death, stillness and movement. For many of ...

Walking through the exhibition “An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine,” I was put in mind of the philosopher Susanne K. Langer and her book Problems of Art, published in 1957. 1 In ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Among the season’s most unlikely, exciting exhibitions is the meeting of the École de Paris and the School of ...