Belarusian-French painter (1893–1943)
He painted meat and landscapes with such violence of color and stroke that collectors didn't know whether to hang them or hide them. Soutine made Expressionism feel like something clawed from the canvas rather than applied to it.
Born in Belarus in 1893, Soutine arrived in Paris and fell in with the School of Paris circle, studying Rembrandt, Chardin, and Courbet like a monk learning scripture. But where the masters pursued likeness, he pursued feeling—shape, color, texture mattered more than what the thing actually was. His canvases twisted and writhed, almost unhinged, yet rooted in the European tradition he revered. That tension between classical discipline and raw emotion made him a hinge figure: too wild for the traditionalists, too devoted to paint itself for the pure abstractionists. He worked through World War…
Sourced, dated quotes from Chaim Soutine
It is the first time in my life that I have not been able to do anything. I am in a bad state of mind and I am demoralized, and that influences me.
I never touched Cubism myself, you know, although I was attracted by it one time. When I was painting at Céret and at Cagnes [1919, and from 1923].
Once I saw the village butcher [in his youth, in Russia] slice the neck of a bird and drain the blood out of it.
You don't like my painting, you only want to help me. If you had given me one franc for my picture I would have taken it [when M.
You have no right to interfere with my art. Your wife is not your property. I need her, in order to finish my picture, I must have her! I will sue you!
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