A Jewish artist born Haïm Sutin, Chaim Soutine was one of the outstanding artists of the twenti
A Jewish artist born Haïm Sutin, Chaim Soutine was one of the outstanding artists of the twentieth century. After a difficult childhood as an outsider within an outcast community, Soutine desired to live as a Jew, and as a “man like the others,” but, above all, as an artist. From poverty in an eastern European shtetl to the art circles of Paris, read the first of our four-part series on The Metamorphosis of Chaim Soutine in conjunction with the final weeks of Chaim Soutine: Flesh on view now at the Jewish Museum through September 16. -- source link
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