Few artists have combined vigorous and expressive brushwork with the ostensibly static subject matter of the still life to quite such dazzling effect as Chaim Soutine. The Russian-French painter ...

Before I entered, I asked a question that seemed appropriate, given the way that museums these days seem to tie whatever they’re shilling in the gift shop and restaurant to the art on view. “Would ...

The first paintings one sees upon entering “Soutine / de Kooning: Conversations in Paint,” on view at the Barnes Foundation are Chaïm Soutine’s “View of the Village,” a distorted landscape with bright ...

I should confess immediately that I was skeptical when I first heard about “Soutine / de Kooning: Conversations in Paint,” at the Barnes Foundation, an exhibition described as “exploring affinities ...

Chaïm Soutine (French, b. Russia, 1893–1943), "Woman in Pink" (c. 1924), oil on canvas, 28 3/4 × 21 3/8 inches, Saint Louis Art Museum. Given by Sam J. Levin and ...

For lovers of paint. For anyone fascinated by pigmented, viscous oil lavishly applied to canvas. For those who delight in the curly cues it forms when dry after coming off the brush, the smears, the ...

With his canvases depicting remote villages, blood-soaked carcasses and portraits of ordinary people, Chaïm Soutine was Willem de Kooning’s favorite–hands down. “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine — ...

The Belarus-born, France-based painter Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) is precisely the kind of figure we now associate with the School of Paris. Less of a formal movement than an informal time span, it was ...

Walking through the exhibition “An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine,” I was put in mind of the philosopher Susanne K. Langer and her book Problems of Art, published in 1957. 1 In ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Among the season’s most unlikely, exciting exhibitions is the meeting of the École de Paris and the School of ...