Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) once confessed to a fellow artist that sometimes, when work did not go well, “it gets to a point where I scream, I slash the canvas, and everything goes to hell.” ...

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.

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.

In 1910, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), in the shtetl of Smilavičy, in present-day Belarus, asked a fellow villager to pose for a portrait. Such graven images were considered a heresy in the shtetl ...

In “The Village Idiot,” Steve Stern resurrects Chaim Soutine and the sordid eccentricities of his milieu. By Dan Piepenbring When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...

“On Chaïm Soutine” Michael Hofmann, London Review of Books. When Amedeo Modigliani painted his fellow artist Chaïm Soutine in 1916 and again the following year, the resulting works were more or less ...

73.7 x 54.6 cm. (29 x 21.5 in.) New York, Museum of Modern Art, Soutine, October 1950 - January 1951 Cleveland Museum of Art, Modigliani-Soutine, January - March 1951, p. 37, illustrated Musée d'art ...

Steve Stern, author of the new novel, *The Village Idiot*, based around the life of painter Chaim Soutine, surveys a brief history of artists in fiction. The Quietus Published 8:17am 10 September 2022 ...

Chaim Soutine's Les Platanes a Ceret (around 1920) C ollection Diethard Leopold. Image courtesy of Sotheby's. Soutine had an artistic breakthrough just after the First World War, when he created ...