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 ...

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 ...

Few artists have combined vigorous and expressive brushwork with the ostensibly static subject matter of the still life to quite such dazzling effect as Chaim Soutine. The Russian-French painter ...

“Self-Portrait” by Chaim Soutine, 1918.Credit...Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, via Princeton University Art Museum/Art Resource Supported by By Celeste Marcus Ms. Marcus is writing a ...

Few artists shaped paint like Chaïm Soutine. His canvases – full of smears and splotches, lines and lacerations – seem to boil with motion. Pictures that appear to be uniformly coloured from a ...

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 ...

This biography of the expressionist painter born in Belarus in 1893 charts his life and legacy, from his life in Paris alongside other artists such as Chagall and Modigliani, to his death in France in ...

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 ...