Soutine

American  

[soo-teen] / suˈtin /

noun

1. Chaim 1894–1943, Lithuanian painter in France.

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Soutine British  

/ sutin /

noun

1. Chaim (ˈxaɪɪm). 1893–1943, French expressionist painter, born in Russia; noted for his portraits and still lifes, esp of animal carcasses

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Example Sentences

Part of her mission, in fact, is to strike down the “gossip” of “the Soutine mythology”—the idea that the artist’s paintings are an expression of a misery that began in childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

But, at least in his paintings, Soutine never sought to escape earthliness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

He was an avid art collector who began acquiring Modernist works of art with the purchase of a Soutine landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

He lived in Montmartre, where he quickly befriended the likes of Pablo Picasso, Chaim Soutine — a fellow Jewish expatriate — and Maurice Utrillo, the son of the artist Suzanne Valadon.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

Certainly, the work of Gabriel-Fournier, Favory, Soutine, and I think of Corneau, was known to me even, through photographs, before the Armistice was signed.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive