International Alert Issued For Paintings Stolen From Encino Home Sep 10, 2008
Paintings by Hans Hofmann, Arshile Gorky and Chaim Soutine were also among the works taken from the collection amassed during the past 60 years. The artworks were insured by the unidentified couple, who made their fortune in real estate, Hrycyk said. (NBC4.tv, CA)
The visionary painting of an agonised soul Apr 23, 2008
Chaim Soutine, a Belarussian Jewish painter whose bold works reveal deep emotion and turmoil, is the subject of a special exhibition at Basel's Fine Arts Museum. It aims to show how the rediscovered Soutine, a contemporary and friend of Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani, developed his unique technique during a time of great change in art. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
auctions: At Christies, 2nd highest ever European auction Feb 7, 2008
The first lot that came on the block, a beautiful landscape painted by Chaim Soutine around 1920, in which the lines of swaying trunks run like fire, sold for only 636,500, 10 percent below the lower end of the estimate. It has all the energy of German Expressionism to which the Paris-based Soutine was heavily indebted, while occasionally injecting into it a wild lyricism, as was the case here. (International Herald Tribune)
Georg Baselitz and the destructive impulse Nov 24, 2007
They are done in a manner that sends back echoes to the uvre of Chaim Soutine, the Slav artist who worked as a lone successor to German Expressionism in Paris between the two world wars. 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Going, going, gone for ... how much? Feb 12, 2007
I have to rely on a running commentary from the people around me, who can spot a slight twitch from a couple of hundred yards, and when a painting by Chaim Soutine goes up and up and up and keeps going leaving its guide price of 3. 5-5m behind like a bad memory, it's like watching imaginary tennis: they crane left, crane right, crane left again. (The Observer)
Modern art sales fetch record Feb 11, 2007
"L'homme au foulard rouge," by Chaim Soutine, a Russian painter who emigrated to Paris, went on Monday for $22 million, or twice the initial estimate, highlighting the appetite for Russian works. The Cubist-inspired "Les maisons dans les arbres," by Fernand Leger, surpassed all expectations when it sold for $15. (NEWS.com.au)
London art auctions raise millions in record week Feb 10, 2007
The 1921 "L'homme au foulard Rouge" by French expressionist Chaim Soutine went for 8. 76 million pounds at Sotheby's on Monday, another artist record and more than five times the price it made in 1997. (Reuters.uk)
Sotheby's Raises $186 Million in London Sale of Impressionist, Modern Art Feb 6, 2007
An unidentified woman in the room bought her 1921 Chaim Soutine portrait of a red-scarfed man for a record 8. 8 million pounds, including Sotheby's commission. (Bloomberg -- UK)
