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)
Le lièvre, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Le lièvre, 1918

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Nature morte à la lampe, 1916

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte à la lampe, 1916

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Portrait de femme de face, 1929

Chaim Soutine

Portrait de femme de face, 1929

Sale Date: November 5, 2008

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Jeune fille avec un chien, maison et..., 1930

Chaim Soutine

Jeune fille avec un chien, maison et..., 1930

Sale Date: July 2, 2008

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La jeune polonaise, 1929

Chaim Soutine

La jeune polonaise, 1929

Sale Date: June 25, 2008

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Paysage avec personnage couché, Champigny, 1942–1943

Chaim Soutine

Paysage avec personnage couché, Champigny, 1942–1943

Sale Date: June 25, 2008

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Le faisan au chou, 1926–1927

Chaim Soutine

Le faisan au chou, 1926–1927

Sale Date: June 24, 2008

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Nature morte aux harengs et aux oignons, 1917

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte aux harengs et aux oignons, 1917

Sale Date: June 25, 2008

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La femme au grand chapeau, 1919

Chaim Soutine

La femme au grand chapeau, 1919

Sale Date: June 24, 2008

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Maison et jardin aux environs de Paris, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Maison et jardin aux environs de Paris, 1918

Sale Date: May 21, 2008

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Paysage avec personnage couché, Champigny, 1942–1943

Chaim Soutine

Paysage avec personnage couché, Champigny, 1942–1943

Sale Date: February 4, 2008

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La forêt, 1918

Chaim Soutine

La forêt, 1918

Sale Date: February 4, 2008

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Les platanes à Céret, 1920

Chaim Soutine

Les platanes à Céret, 1920

Sale Date: February 4, 2008

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Le grand faisan, 1926–1927

Chaim Soutine

Le grand faisan, 1926–1927

Sale Date: February 6, 2008

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La liseuse endormie (Madeleine Castaing), 1937

Chaim Soutine

La liseuse endormie (Madeleine Castaing), 1937

Sale Date: February 6, 2008

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La route peu rassurante, 1918–1919

Chaim Soutine

La route peu rassurante, 1918–1919

Sale Date: February 6, 2008

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Enfant aux oies devant un grand arbre, 1942

Chaim Soutine

Enfant aux oies devant un grand arbre, 1942

Sale Date: February 5, 2008

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Nature morte aux deux perdrix rouges, 1918

Chaim Soutine

Nature morte aux deux perdrix rouges, 1918

Sale Date: February 5, 2008

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Paysage, 1923–1924

Chaim Soutine

Paysage, 1923–1924

Sale Date: November 6, 2007

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Le rouquin, 1917–1919

Chaim Soutine

Le rouquin, 1917–1919

Sale Date: November 8, 2007

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Les escaliers à Chartres, 1933

Chaim Soutine

Les escaliers à Chartres, 1933

Sale Date: June 20, 2007

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Paysage, 1939

Chaim Soutine

Paysage, 1939

Sale Date: June 20, 2007

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Les platanes à Céret, 1920

Chaim Soutine

Les platanes à Céret, 1920

Sale Date: June 19, 2007

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La femme à l'ombrelle, 1936–1937

Chaim Soutine

La femme à l'ombrelle, 1936–1937

Sale Date: June 19, 2007

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