Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art
3 Quarks Daily • 3/16/2026
Summary
Chaim Soutine was an artist who had a strong obsession with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. At the age of twenty, in 1913, he traveled from Smilovichi, a shtetl in present-day Belarus, to Paris. Soutine frequently visited the Louvre to study the canvas. In the mid-1920s, he continued to engage with his artistic pursuits.
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