The legacy of Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) is a conundrum. Often his reputation spreads beyond him or his art. One goal of this ...

The forgotten legacy of Henri Serouya, historian, intellectual, philosopher, author of many acclaimed books and learned articles, all in French was found by the author in a suitcase in a basement. A ...

Chaim Soutine wasn’t very good at friendship. Though his friend and fellow artist Amedeo Modigliani championed his genius, Soutine—who hated to be indebted to anyone—returned the favor after ...

A pastry chef changed the life of Chaim Soutine, one of the 20th century's most famous Expressionist painters, forever. In 1920s Paris, Soutine was living the life of the destitute artist, painting ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a well-known send-up, in the movie “Notting Hill,” of self-righteous dietary fads. “I’m a fruitarian,” a mousy young woman announces on a first date with Hugh Grant. “We believe that fruits ...

“Flesh,” the title of a small, potent, and timely Chaim Soutine retrospective, elegantly curated by Stephen Brown, at the Jewish Museum, is genteel. “Meat” would better fit the show’s focus on the ...

In 1977 an interviewer asked a 73-year-old Willem de Kooning which artists had inspired him and got a somewhat unexpected answer. “I’ve always been crazy about Soutine—all of his paintings,” the ...