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 femme au grand chapeau, 1919

Chaim Soutine

La femme au grand chapeau, 1919

Sale Date: February 10, 2011

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Nature morte aux harengs avec plat ovale, 1917

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte aux harengs avec plat ovale, 1917

Sale Date: February 10, 2011

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Arlequin

Chaim Soutine

Arlequin

Sale Date: September 15, 2007

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Arlequin

Chaim Soutine

Arlequin

Sale Date: September 15, 2008

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Maison de Clamart, 1918–1919

Chaim Soutine

Maison de Clamart, 1918–1919

Sale Date: December 8, 2010

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La dinde pendue, 1925

Chaim Soutine

La dinde pendue, 1925

Sale Date: November 2, 2010

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La sieste, femme étendue sous un arbre, 1934

Chaim Soutine

La sieste, femme étendue sous un arbre, 1934

Sale Date: June 23, 2010

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Le valet de chambre, 1927–1928

Chaim Soutine

Le valet de chambre, 1927–1928

Sale Date: June 22, 2010

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Le canard blanc, 1925

Chaim Soutine

Le canard blanc, 1925

Sale Date: June 3, 2010

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Le grand chapeau, 1923–1924

Chaim Soutine

Le grand chapeau, 1923–1924

Sale Date: May 4, 2010

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Femme couchée sur un divan rouge, 1916

Chaim Soutine

Femme couchée sur un divan rouge, 1916

Sale Date: May 4, 2010

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Nature morte au verre de vin et à la lampe à , 1916

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte au verre de vin et à la lampe à , 1916

Sale Date: March 31, 2010

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Paysage, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Paysage, 1918

Sale Date: December 9, 2009

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Bouquet de fleurs en pot sur fauteuil, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Bouquet de fleurs en pot sur fauteuil, 1918

Sale Date: December 1, 2009

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Maison aux environs de Paris, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Maison aux environs de Paris, 1918

Sale Date: November 26, 2009

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Paysage de Gréolières, 1920

Chaim Soutine

Paysage de Gréolières, 1920

Sale Date: November 4, 2009

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Autoportrait à la barbe, 1917

Chaim Soutine

Autoportrait à la barbe, 1917

Sale Date: June 23, 2009

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Bouquet de fleurs en pot sur fauteuil, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Bouquet de fleurs en pot sur fauteuil, 1918

Sale Date: April 21, 2009

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Paysage du midi, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Paysage du midi, 1918

Sale Date: February 5, 2009

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Femme couchée, 1940

Chaim Soutine

Femme couchée, 1940

Sale Date: February 5, 2009

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Visage d'homme au chapeau, 1914

Chaim Soutine

Visage d'homme au chapeau, 1914

Sale Date: February 5, 2009

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La petite fille à la poupée, 1925

Chaim Soutine

La petite fille à la poupée, 1925

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Jeune femme en rouge, 1929

Chaim Soutine

Jeune femme en rouge, 1929

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Paysage à Champigny (La mare aux canards), 1943

Chaim Soutine

Paysage à Champigny (La mare aux canards), 1943

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

Auction Closed

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