Chaïm Soutine and British Painting

Piano Nobile is pleased to announce our upcoming presentation exploring the interconnections between Chaïm Soutine and twentieth-century British painting. 

The painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943) was a leading contributor to the expressionist movement and a key figure of the École de Paris in the inter-war period. He was also a dedicated student of nature. He worked from life and typically adopted subjects that belong to the traditional genres of still life, landscape and portraiture. Yet he transformed his subjects into roiling, turbulent images, and his paintings are suffused with an acute sense of psychological animation. 

With notable examples of Soutine’s work, including one of his Céret landscapes, Soutine & British Painting uses a mixture of comparison and juxtaposition to reflect on his direct inspiration of artists such as Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, as well as the broader similarities of style and approach that can be detected in the work of David Bomberg, Peter Coker and Paula Rego.