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.
Soutine (with signature)
Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Soutine, 1916
Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, 1917, National Gallery of Art
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Élie Faure
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Jacques Élie Faure was a French medical doctor, art historian and essayist.
Chaïm Soutine
…took the money, ran into the street, hailed a Paris taxi, and ordered the driver to take him to Nice, on the French Riviera, more than 400 miles away. Élie Faure, who was called "the greatest art critic of the 1920s and 30s ... shared a brief and almost romantically intense friendship" with Soutine". Faure said…
Élie Faure in 1900
One illustration from Élie Faure's History of art (1921): Cordova (8th Century); interior of the great mosque