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1893–1943, Беларусь

Хаим Соломонович Сутин

A Life Forged in Turmoil: The World of Chaim Soutine Chaim Soutine, a name synonymous with raw emotion and turbulent landscapes, was born into a world of profound hardship that indelibly shaped his artistic vision. Born Chaïm-Iche Solomonovich Sutin on January 13, 1893, in Smilavichi (now part of Belarus), within a large, impoverished Jewish family, his early life was steeped in the realities of poverty and the constraints imposed by Orthodox religious observance. This formative experience—a childhood marked by scarcity and tradition—became the bedrock upon which he built his intensely personal and often unsettling artistic style. Despite the discouragement of figurative representation within his upbringing, a remarkable talent for drawing emerged, hinting at the passionate intensity that would later define his work.

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