Happy Birthday to Russian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris, Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) https://t.co/6GzEYgcTM5

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➤James Tissot (1836-1902), la ambigüedad moderna
➤ Giorgio de Chirico. Pintura metafísica
➤ En el país de los monstruos, Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940)
➤ Los orígenes del mundo La invención de la naturaleza en el siglo XIX (Darwin)
➤ Soutine / De Kooning, entre otras
🧶 /FIN

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In his 1917 painting of Russian expressionist Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani depicted Soutine’s half-closed eyes, one slightly higher than the other, reflecting his despair and hopelessness. 🔍 Learn more about this painting and take a deeper dive 👉 https://t.co/3j1rqcx7Ma

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Chaim Soutine
Landscape at Céret

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Chaïm SOUTINE
Landscape with house and tree
ca 1920-21
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

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Chaïm Soutine - La femme en rouge au fond bleu, c. 1928. Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 54.9 cm. (29 3/4 by 21 5/8 in.). @ Sotheby's Images, New York

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He loved Rembrandt & studied his beef pictures. These are paintings of animal flesh. Soutine took Rembrandt’s idea & liberated the concept further. In painting flesh he asks what is life. Mutton (c1920), Portrait of a Young Girl (c1920), Self-Portrait (c1920-1) & the Beef (c1920)

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After the war Paul Guillaume became his dealer & promoted him. Portraits (1915-6). Soutine was keen to expose the emotion of his sitters & capture their personalities. Soutine recognised that with the invention of the camera Realism was irrelevant - just expression.

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. Chaim Soutine - Devant la fenêtre - L'Escalier rouge à Cagnes, 1918

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