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 ...

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 ...

Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused. Artists in Gaza, Syria and Ukraine share his universality.

Chaim Soutine, Chicken Hung Before a Brick Wall, 1925.Oil on canvas. Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. At the other end of the room is another still life, Fish, Peppers, Onions, 1919, with red ...

As paint and painters go, few ever reached as deep as Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) and Willem de Kooning (1904–1997). Newsletters Games Share a News Tip Featured ...

In Soutine’s work the answer is obviously the latter. “Chaim Soutine: Flesh,” which consists of 31 canvases, is organized in four sections: ...

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 ...

Chaim Soutine, “Still Life with Rayfish” (ca 1924), oil on canvas (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) Few artists have combined vigorous and expressive brushwork with the ostensibly static ...

Willem de Kooning’s ‘Composition’ (1955), center, and Chaïm Soutine’s ‘View of the Village’ (c. 1921), right Photo: The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia ...

Author Steve Stern views Chaim Soutine as an artist who didn’t deny his Judaism, and resented those who he saw as exploiting it, like Marc Chagall. Courtesy of Melville House.

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.