Élie Faure
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Jacques Élie Faure was a French medical doctor, art historian and essayist.
Élie Faure in 1900
One illustration from Élie Faure's History of art (1921): Cordova (8th Century); interior of the great mosque
Chaïm Soutine
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Chaïm Soutine was a French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin of the School of Paris, who made a major contribution to the Expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
Élie Faure
…cemetery in the village of Laurents in Saint-Antoine-de-Breuilh. Élie Faure "shared a brief and almost romantically intense friendship" with the painter Chaïm Soutine, whom he considered a genius. From 1927 onwards, he took the artist on trips with him, settled several of his debts, and bought a few of his works. He…
Soutine (with signature)
Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Soutine, 1916
Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, 1917, National Gallery of Art
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