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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Catalog of the exhibition": p. 112-114. Soutine's birthdate 1893 lately established by M. Pierre Courthion. Cf. Chronology, p. 11. siris_sil_125966 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A record was set for French artist Chaim Soutine on Wednesday at Christie's auction of Impressionist and modern art, which met expectations with a total of just under $160 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

Collectors flood into New York at the beginning of May, ready for the big auctions of 20th-century art at the major auction houses (launching this year with Sotheby's New York evening sale on Tuesday, ...