This winter, I was in London and saw an exhibition of a painter whose work I have met and re-met throughout my life, Chaim Soutine. It was a small exhibition, in two rooms at the Courtauld Gallery, of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These vivid, fleshy paintings of restaurant and hotel staff in 1920s France reveal the brutalised souls beneath the uniforms The Butcher Boy looks like a killer who has bathed in blood. His black eyes ...

There is a well-known send-up, in the movie “Notting Hill,” of self-righteous dietary fads. “I’m a fruitarian,” a mousy young woman announces on a first date with Hugh Grant. “We believe that fruits ...

Having lived the stereotype of the penniless artist in Paris, Soutine was drawn not to the glamour of the roaring 1920s, but to those in the world below stairs Chaïm Soutine’s Pastry Cook of Cagnes ...

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 ...