ABOUT SOUTINE: Typically classified as a French Expressionist, the Belarusian-Jewish painter Chaim Soutine (1894-1943) created his major works between the two World Wars as part of the School of Paris. A "painter's painter," Soutine worked with unreserved gesture and emotion, using exuberant colour, thickly applied paint, and sweeping brushwork.
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Widely acclaimed, this is a comprehensive and ground-breaking book that rediscovers this important artist, providing an overview of his life, work and aesthetic influence, as well as his critical reception. Essays assess Soutine's art from new vantage points, including the changing critical reception of his work in Paris between the wars, as well as in the US and France in the aftermath of World War II. The essays also examine the influence of Soutine's Jewish and French immigrant background on his work and reception, and introduce us to his important patrons and major collectors. These included Albert Barnes, the famous Philadelphia collector, who discovered Soutine's work in 1922-23 and purchased 52 of his paintings.
The book features presentations and information never published before, including a photo-essay composed of rare photographs of the artist, newly discovered correspondence between Soutine and the French art historian Elie Faure, and the first radiographic analysis of the artist's work, which brings to light new evidence about Soutine's use of materials and his process of painting.
BOOK DETAILS: Hardback, cloth over boards, released with dustjacket. Sewn binding. 207 pp; 3 pounds. 32 full-page color illustrations, 84 b&w illustrations, and a photo essay. 9 essays. Catalogue, Appendix, Chronology, Select Bibliography.
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Soutine was born in a Jewish ghetto in Lithuania in 1893 and died in 1943, in wartime France, where he was forced to hide in the countryside to elude Nazi occupiers. He has been called a postimpressionist, in keeping with his time, but his torturous, richly colored paintings--the studies of dead animals fresh from the butcher shop may be his best-known images--relate more closely to expressionism, or de Kooning's wild women.
This fascinating volume, published to accompany an exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum, includes 10 essays on Soutine's life and work. It is filled with black-and-white snapshots of the handsome artist and his many friends, including the painter Amedeo Modigliani and the American writer Henry Miller, that transport the reader to "that visual France words can but feebly trace"--the magical interlude between the two world wars. There are only 32 color plates of Soutine's paintings, but the photographs, reminiscences, letters to and from the artist, and critical perspectives make for a richly satisfying book. --Peggy Moorman
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