Chaim soutine biography books
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Chaïm Soutine
Against the Current
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Edited by: Susanne Gaensheimer, Susanne Meyer-Büser
Texts by: Claire Bernardi, Marta Dziewanska, Susanne Meyer-Büser, Sophie Krebs, Pascale Samuel, Catherine Frèrejean
Graphic Design: Mathias Beyer
English
August 2023, 176 Pages
Hardcover
226mm x 282mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5541-2
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| An insatiable Hunger for Life
Clenched, raw and pressingly urgent: Chaïm Soutine’s vivid paintings are testimonies to a sense of human vulnerability and an existence on the margins of samhälle. Intensely colored, his meaty impasto portraits are thrown onto the canvas with broad brushstrokes, while his agitated, frenetic landscapes and paintin
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Soutine’s Last Journey (Hardback)
August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that’s traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer, he urgently needs a life-saving operation. But the hearse must avoid the occupiers’ checkpoints, and it becomes increasingly likely that he will not survive the journey.
In a stream of extraordinary images, the morphine-induced artist hallucinates and remembers his life. He dreams of his childhood in Smilovichi near Minsk; his beginnings as a painter in Vilna; his arrival in 1913 in the art capital of the world, Paris, where he befriends Modigliani; and his survival of years of struggle and finding sudden success, only to be persecuted and forced into hiding when the Nazis invade. Back in the present, the painter believes that the power of milk is the only possible remedy for his ulcer. I
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Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art
A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art world
Every major modern art museum in the world has Chaim Soutine in its collection. Yet, a full biographical study of the artist and his work does not exist. His paintings, which are shocking, grotesque, difficult, touching, and brilliant, were revered but misunderstood bygd his contemporaries who mistook him for an expressionist.
In Untitled on Chaim Soutine, Celeste Marcus offers a compelling history of the artist, taking us from his early days in eastern Europe to his life in Paris among other artists such as Chagall and Modigliani, to his death in France during the German invasion. Marcus highlights how his Jewish identity dictated his dark fate even while he personally abandoned his heritage, and she reveals the conditions in which he created his most