Chaim Soutine

(Belarusian/French, 1893–1943)

Chaim Soutine was a French-Russian painter who created expressive landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, with sweeping brushstrokes that distorted reality. The many hours he spent time studying the still-life paintings of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and Rembrandt in the Louvre, led Soutine to create his well-known Carcass of Beef series. “Once I saw the village butcher slice the neck of a bird and drain the blood out of it. I wanted to cry out, but his joyful expression caught the sound in my throat,” he once explained. “When I painted the beef carcass it was this cry I tried to liberate. I have still not succeeded.” Born Chaïm Soutine on January 13, 1893 in Smilavcihya (a Jewish shtetl near Minsk), Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), he attended the Vilna Academy of Fine Arts in Lithuania before emigrating to Paris, where studied under the academic painter Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts. It was around this time that Soutine met Amedeo Modigliani, whose use of elongated forms to emphasis the psychological aspects of perception bonded the two artists and provided mutual inspiration. In the decades that followed, Soutine experienced success, including the sale of 60 works to the American art collector Albert C. Barnes. The artist died on August 9, 1943 in Paris, France. Today, Soutine’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among others.

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Chaim Soutine (561 results)
La pauvrette, 1937

Chaim Soutine

La pauvrette, 1937

Sale Date: June 20, 2006

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La liseuse endormie (Madeleine Castaing), 1937

Chaim Soutine

La liseuse endormie (Madeleine Castaing), 1937

Sale Date: June 20, 2006

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Paysage de Cagnes, 1923–1924

Chaim Soutine

Paysage de Cagnes, 1923–1924

Sale Date: June 19, 2006

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La femme en rouge sur fond bleu, 1928

Chaim Soutine

La femme en rouge sur fond bleu, 1928

Sale Date: June 19, 2006

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La condition humaine (Tête d'ouvrier, en..., 1940

Chaim Soutine

La condition humaine (Tête d'ouvrier, en..., 1940

Sale Date: June 2, 2006

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Interrogation (Potrait d'homme, en buste,..., 1940

Chaim Soutine

Interrogation (Potrait d'homme, en buste,..., 1940

Sale Date: June 2, 2006

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Arbres à Auxerre, 1939

Chaim Soutine

Arbres à Auxerre, 1939

Sale Date: May 3, 2006

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Femme en rouge appuyée à un fauteuil, 1919

Chaim Soutine

Femme en rouge appuyée à un fauteuil, 1919

Sale Date: May 3, 2006

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Paysage avec des personnages, 1922

Chaim Soutine

Paysage avec des personnages, 1922

Sale Date: May 3, 2006

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La jeune polonaise, 1929

Chaim Soutine

La jeune polonaise, 1929

Sale Date: May 2, 2006

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Les arbres au bord de la route, 1942

Chaim Soutine

Les arbres au bord de la route, 1942

Sale Date: February 8, 2006

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Paysage à la route montante, 1922–1924

Chaim Soutine

Paysage à la route montante, 1922–1924

Sale Date: February 7, 2006

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Paysage de Cagnes, 1924

Chaim Soutine

Paysage de Cagnes, 1924

Sale Date: February 6, 2006

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Le boeuf écorché, 1924

Chaim Soutine

Le boeuf écorché, 1924

Sale Date: February 6, 2006

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Nature morte au chou rouge, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte au chou rouge, 1918

Sale Date: October 21, 2005

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La cathédrale de Chartres, 1933

Chaim Soutine

La cathédrale de Chartres, 1933

Sale Date: November 2, 2005

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Inquietude (Tête de femme, chapeautée), 1940

Chaim Soutine

Inquietude (Tête de femme, chapeautée), 1940

Sale Date: October 28, 2005

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Paysage

Chaim Soutine

Paysage

Sale Date: November 3, 2005

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Nature morte aux poissons, 1921

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte aux poissons, 1921

Sale Date: November 3, 2005

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Les escaliers à Chartres, 1933

Chaim Soutine

Les escaliers à Chartres, 1933

Sale Date: November 3, 2005

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Fleurs et poisson, 1919

Chaim Soutine

Fleurs et poisson, 1919

Sale Date: June 21, 2005

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L'écolier bleu, 1937

Chaim Soutine

L'écolier bleu, 1937

Sale Date: June 22, 2005

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Bouquet de rose à la statue de plâtre, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Bouquet de rose à la statue de plâtre, 1918

Sale Date: June 22, 2005

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La table au lapin écorché, 1923

Chaim Soutine

La table au lapin écorché, 1923

Sale Date: May 4, 2005

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