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 ...

The oil on canvas, measuring 55 cm by 38 cm, is signed by Soutine and dedicated to Maurice Utrillo, making it both an important artistic work and a rare historical document. Its presence in Kikoine's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations ...

I confess to suffering from artist-envy. I mean, rather than arranging the fly-specks and hen-scratches we call language on the blank page, who wouldn’t prefer assaulting a bare canvas with a ...

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 ...