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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MANHATTAN (CN) – A retired art dealer was blocked from selling 10 drawings by Jewish expressionist artist Chaim Soutine after the co-authors of the artist’s catalogue raisonne told an art gallery and ...

One whole year of not being able to attend press openings at the Barnes Foundation, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Flower Show, and many other exciting cultural events which I always ...

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 ...

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, and ...

Chaim Soutine, "Le faison au chou" (1926/27), oil on canvas at Galerie Thomas. (photo by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) MIAMI — Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was somewhat of a super star to the Abstract ...

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 ...