Photo: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek, Denmark In 1910, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), in the shtetl of Smilavičy, in present-day Belarus, asked a fellow villager to pose for a portrait.

Soutine had a long-standing obsession with meat, which emerged, he said, from seeing a goose beheaded as a child (the happiness on the butcher’s face made him stifle his scream).

Chaim Soutine, Carcass of Beef, c. 1925. Oil on canvas. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York While the pictures will knock you out without any back story, the biography tells you something ...

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.

As paint and painters go, few ever reached as deep as Chaim Soutine (1893–1943) and Willem de Kooning (1904–1997).

“Chaim Soutine: Flesh,” which consists of 31 canvases, is organized in four sections: “A Modern Still Life” — home of the artichoke and fish — “Fowl,” “Flesh” and “The Life ...

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 ...

Installation view of the exhibition Chaim Soutine: Flesh, May 4–September 16, 2018, at the Jewish Museum (photo courtesy the Jewish Museum, New York) More info at the Jewish Museum.

Though the two artists never met and had very different styles, an intriguing Barnes Foundation exhibition looks for signs of the French modernist’s influence on the Abstract Expressionist painter.

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.

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 ...