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Chaïm Soutine

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Fan account of Chaïm Soutine, a Russian-French painter of Jewish origin. 1893-1943 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 12h

The Table https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/the-table

The Table

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 17h

Carcass of Beef https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1325/

Still life with meat.
Soutine grew up poor in a small Lithuanian town and continued to struggle as a starving artist in Paris. His years of deprivation gave him stomach ulcers, so he abstained from meat and other rich foods. Beginning to achieve success as an artist, he found himself, ironically, buying meat—but not to eat. He expressed his ambivalent relationship to food through paintings of butchered animals. Carcass of Beef shows the influence of Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox, a painting of an ox carcass strung up in a slaughterhouse. Soutine bought a steer’s carcass and put it up in his studio. As it rotted, his neighbors noticed the smell and called the health authorities, who suggested he inject the carcass with formaldehyde. He did so, but as the flesh dried it lost its vivid color. To solve the problem, Soutine bought blood from the slaughterhouse and applied it to the carcass.

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 18h

White House on a Hill https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/white-house-on-a-hill

White House on a Hill

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 1d

Polish Woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/polish-woman

Polish Woman

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 1d

Still Life with Lamp https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/still-life-with-lamp

Still Life with Lamp

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 1d

Maternity https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/maternity

Maternity

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 2d

Dead Fowl https://www.artic.edu/artworks/23643/

Like many artists associated with the School of Paris, Chaim Soutine moved to Montparnasse upon his 1913 arrival in Paris. He did not adhere to one particular artistic style, though he admired earlier artists like Rembrandt and Jean-Siméon Chardin and the more recent Fauves and Expressionists. In the mid-1920s, Soutine produced a group of still-life paintings primarily featuring hanging game and meat carcasses, subjects found in European art for centuries. Rather than depicting the dead animals as lifeless and limp, however, he often portrayed them as tragic figures; in works like Dead Fowl, the visceral quality of the thick, swirling paint suggests the bird’s writhing battle against death.

Joseph Winterbotham Collection

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 2d

School Boy in Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/school-boy-in-blue-1937

School Boy in Blue

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 2d

Still LIfe with Fish and Pitcher https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/still-life-with-fish-and-pitcher

Still LIfe with Fish and Pitcher

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 3d

Still Life with Fish https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/still-life-with-fish

Still Life with Fish

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 3d

Young Woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/young-woman

Young Woman

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 3d

Plane Trees at Céret https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/plane-trees-at-ceret-1920-0

Plane Trees at Céret

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 4d

Ceret Lanscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/ceret-lanscape

Ceret Lanscape

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 4d

Street of Cagnes-sur-Ner https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/street-of-cagnes-sur-ner

Street of Cagnes-sur-Ner

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 4d

Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/landscape

Landscape

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 5d

Portrait of a Woman https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/portrait-of-a-woman

Portrait of a Woman

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 5d

Girl at Fence https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/girl-at-fence

Girl at Fence

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 5d

Landscape at Cagnes https://www.artic.edu/artworks/59967/

Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 6d

The Gipsy https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020903/KMSr149.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp

The Gipsy

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 6d

Young Man Wearing a Small Hat https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/young-man-wearing-a-small-hat

Young Man Wearing a Small Hat

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 6d

Little Girl in Blue https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/little-girl-in-blue

Little Girl in Blue

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 7d

Tree of Vence https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/tree-of-vence-2-1929

Tree of Vence

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 7d

Self Portrait with Beard https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/self-portrait-with-beard

Self Portrait with Beard

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 7d

Madeleine Castaing https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/madeleine-castaing-1929-0

Madeleine Castaing

Chaïm Soutine @chaimsoutine.bsky.social · 8d

The Chamber Valet https://www.wikiart.org/en/chaim-soutine/the-chamber-valet-1927

The Chamber Valet