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Le Village
Le Village (1923)
Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943)
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Soutine was of Belarusian Jewish origin. He emigrated to Paris and developed a highly personal vision and painting technique.
Soutine once horrified his neighbours by keeping an animal carcass in his studio so that he could paint it (Carcass of Beef). The stench drove them to send for the police, whom Soutine promptly lectured on the relative importance of art over hygiene. There's a story that Marc Chagall saw the blood from the carcass leak out onto the corridor outside Soutine's room, and rushed out screaming, 'Someone has killed Soutine'.
In February 2006, an oil painting of his controversial and iconic series Le Boeuf Ecorche (1924) sold for a record £7.8 million ($13.8US million).
Le Village
Le Village (1923)
Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943)
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Soutine was of Belarusian Jewish origin. He emigrated to Paris and developed a highly personal vision and painting technique.
Soutine once horrified his neighbours by keeping an animal carcass in his studio so that he could paint it (Carcass of Beef). The stench drove them to send for the police, whom Soutine promptly lectured on the relative importance of art over hygiene. There's a story that Marc Chagall saw the blood from the carcass leak out onto the corridor outside Soutine's room, and rushed out screaming, 'Someone has killed Soutine'.
In February 2006, an oil painting of his controversial and iconic series Le Boeuf Ecorche (1924) sold for a record £7.8 million ($13.8US million).