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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Young Man Wearing a Small Hat, 1916

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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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