Chaim Soutine

It could be said that he was born at the end of the nineteenth century in the Empire Russian, that he joined Paris in 1912, where he met his friend Modigliani, and that he lived there in poverty for many years, before seeing An American collector, Albert Barnes, discovered his painting and gave him the status it should have. But what about approaching the work of Soutine, to say its very presence? Some have taken it upon themselves. And in particular the art historian Élie Faure, who knew and protected Soutine (to the point of to accommodate him and pay some of his debts) who was enthusiastic about this work by dedicating this passionate, pertinent essay to it, in which he will be able to declare that "Soutine is perhaps, since Rembrandt, the painter in which the lyricism of matter has most deeply sprung from it, without no attempt to impose on painting, by means other than matter, this supernatural expression of visible life that she has in charge of us to offer."