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      Chaim Soutine, 1893 – 1943

      Chaim Soutine's 100 Most Famous Paintings

      Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall (1924) is the painting Chaim Soutine is best remembered for; it belongs to the Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern. Hanging Duck (1925) and Suburban Landscape with Red Houses (1917) complete the trio of best-loved canvases. Our catalogue counts 118 works by Chaim Soutine. Here are the 100 most famous, with the year, the museum and the story of each canvas.

      Ranked by our popularity score, which combines the searches, visits and orders for each work. Updated oktober 2026. Each painting on this page can be ordered as an oil reproduction painted by hand on linen canvas, or as a fine art print, made to the size you choose.

      Portrait of Chaim Soutine
      Chaim Soutine · 1893 – 1943
      Born · died
      1893 – 1943, Smilaviči
      Movement
      Expressionism
      Works in our catalogue
      118
      Most famous
      Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall (1924)
      Most works at
      Musée de l'Orangerie

      The ten best-loved paintings by Chaim Soutine

      Suburban Landscape with Red Houses (1917) by Chaim Soutine
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      Suburban Landscape with Red Houses

      1917 · Oil On Canvas

      In the turbulent landscape of early 20th-century modernism, few voices resonate with as much raw, visceral energy as that of Chaim Soutine. His 1917 masterpiece, Suburban Landscape with Red Houses, serves as a breathtaking window into the heart of Expressionism. This is not merely a depiction of a quiet neighborhood; it is an emotional upheaval captured on canvas. The painting invites the viewer into a world where the boundaries between…

      Girl in Red (1919) by Chaim Soutine
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      Girl in Red

      1919 · Oil

      A woman sits, draped in a heavy shade of red. The color is thick, a visceral weight of pigment that seems to pulse against the surface. She is seated upon a chair, her hands resting upon its back, while a smaller chair sits in the distance, a silent companion in the room. A handbag lies near her feet, a solitary object in a space defined by shadow. Her face remains…

      Portrait of a Child (1937) by Chaim Soutine
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      Portrait of a Child

      1937 · Oil

      In this intimate work, titled Portrait of a Child, the artist Chaim Soutine turns his gaze toward the quiet vulnerability of youth. Created about 1937, the painting presents a portrait of a young child, capturing a moment of profound stillness. There is a certain weight to the subject's presence, a sense of being caught in a private moment of thought.

      Untitled (1411) by Chaim Soutine
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      Untitled (1411)

      Watercolor · Narodni muzej zahodne umetnosti, Tokyo

      A woman sits draped in red. The color is heavy, a thick weight of pigment that seems to pulse against the paper. She turns her head away, her gaze lost to something unseen. A hat, dark and perhaps mystical, rests upon her hair. She is a solitary anchor in a shifting space. Around her, the edges of the world dissolve into shadows and half-formed shapes.

      Beef and calf's head (1923) by Chaim Soutine
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      Beef and calf's head

      1923 · Oil On Canvas · Musée de l'Orangerie, Pariz

      The composition is dominated by a large, central mass of meat that occupies most of the frame. To the left, a severed animal head is positioned within the arrangement. The color palette relies on highly saturated, warm tones, specifically crimson, vermilion, and ochre, which contrast against dark, murky browns and blacks in the background. Thick, gestural lines create a sense of movement across the surface. The shapes are organic and…

      The Gipsy (1926) by Chaim Soutine
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      The Gipsy

      1926 · Oil On Canvas · Statens Museum For Kunst, Kopenhagen

      The Gipsy by Chaim Soutine, created about 1926, is a centered, bust-length portrait of a single figure. The subject possesses dark hair and directs the gaze slightly off-center rather than toward the viewer. This figure is positioned against a dark, indistinct background that lacks measurable depth, which focuses the attention entirely on the person. A saturated red scarf is wrapped around the neck, providing a sharp contrast to the surrounding…

      Return from School After the Storm by Chaim Soutine
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      Return from School After the Storm

      Oil

      Two children navigate a dirt path through an open field, their figures positioned closely as they walk under a heavy, cloud-scattered sky. The scene captures a moment of transition, where the aftermath of a storm leaves a sense of stillness in the air. In the distance, a solitary figure moves away from the pair, adding a layer of quiet isolation to the natural setting. The composition focuses on the relationship…

      Chaim Soutine: canvases 11 to 100 of the ranking

      The big altar boy (1925) by Chaim Soutine
      #13

      The big altar boy

      1925 · Centre Pompidou

      The big altar boy is an oil on canvas portrait by Chaim Soutine. Created about 1925, the work presents a young figure, likely an altar boy, centered within…

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      Man with Horse (1920) by Chaim Soutine
      #21

      Man with Horse

      1920 · Metropolitanski muzej umetnosti

      In Man with Horse, Chaim Soutine presents a scene of heavy, shifting forms. Painted about 1920, the work centers on a figure, likely a man, moving alongside a…

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      Duck on Blue Background (1925) by Chaim Soutine
      #23

      Duck on Blue Background

      1925 · Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

      A single avian form, likely a duck, is caught in a violent, swirling vortex of color. The subject is not rendered with anatomical precision but through a series…

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      Little Girl in Blue (1935) by Chaim Soutine
      #24

      Little Girl in Blue

      1935 · Kunstmuseum Bern

      Chaim Soutine's "Little Girl in Blue," painted circa 1934-1935, is not merely a portrait; it’s an immersion into the heart of emotional vulnerability. This arresting canvas, currently residing…

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      Dead Fowl (1926) by Chaim Soutine
      #25

      Dead Fowl

      1926 · Art Institute of Chicago

      is an oil on canvas painted by Chaim Soutine in 1926. The work is part of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection. It is also known by the alternate titles…

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      The Table (1919) by Chaim Soutine
      #27

      The Table

      1919 · Musée de l'Orangerie

      The Table is an oil on canvas work by Chaim Soutine. Created circa 1919, this still life captures a moment of domestic disarray. It resides within the collection…

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      The Turkey (1925) by Chaim Soutine
      #28

      The Turkey

      1925 · Musée de l'Orangerie

      is an oil on canvas created by Chaim Soutine. Executed about 1925, the work belongs to the Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume collection. It is currently held at…

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      Farm Girl [La Fille de Ferme] (1919) by Chaim Soutine
      #50

      Farm Girl [La Fille de Ferme]

      1919 · Nagoya City Art Museum

      白ロシア共和国(現ベラルーシ共和国)ミンスク近郊の寒村に生まれたスーチンがパリに出たのは19歳の時だった。貧困と、作品に対する無理解に苦しみながら、一人異国の地で模索する、そんな彼の才能をいち早く見い出したのがモディリアーニであった。教養もなければ、礼儀も知らず、野生児そのままといったスーチンに、モディリアーニはナイフやフォークの使い方を教え、制作の助言をし、しばしば絶望感にさいなまれる彼を励ました。しかし、彼は生涯野生児のままであった。30歳目前の若さでアメリカ人のコレクターに見い出され、作品が売れ、流行の背広に身を包むようになっても、彼の孤独と不安は、ついにいやされることはなかった。 スーチンの作品に一貫して表現されているのは、彼の孤独と不安の叫びである。その絵画世界では、あらゆるものがゆがみ、ねじまげられ、苦し気にのたうっているが、それはまさしくスーチン自身の内面の姿にほかならない。 《農家の娘》でも筆致の速さは目立つものの、スーチン特有のうねり、ゆがみの表現は比較的少なく、モデルの素朴な印象が引き立つように色彩は抑えられている。画家の描く対象との向き合い方を物語る一枚である。(出典: 名古屋市美術館展示解説カード)

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      The old mill by Chaim Soutine
      #65

      The old mill

      The old mill is an oil on canvas by Chaim Soutine. It emerged from the artist's brush around 1922-23. The paint clings to the fabric in thick, restless…

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      Landscape with trees in the wind (1919) by Chaim Soutine
      #66

      Landscape with trees in the wind

      1919 · The Ema Klabin House Museum

      This arresting landscape, titled “Landscape with trees in the wind,” offers a profound glimpse into the artistic world of Chaim Soutine (1894-1943), a painter whose intensely personal and…

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      Windy Day, Auxerre by Chaim Soutine
      #67

      Windy Day, Auxerre

      The Phillips Collection

      Windy Day, Auxerre is a work by Chaim Soutine. Created in the summer of 1939, the painting captures a specific moment of atmospheric tension. The scene is situated…

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      The Pheasant by Chaim Soutine
      #69

      The Pheasant

      The Phillips Collection

      The Pheasant is a work by Chaim Soutine, executed between c. 1926 and c. 1927. The artist was born near Minsk, Russia, in what is now Belarus. Following…

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      Woman in Profile by Chaim Soutine
      #70

      Woman in Profile

      The Phillips Collection

      Woman in Profile is a portrait of Madame Tennent painted by Chaim Soutine. This work was created about 1937. The composition focuses on the subject from a side…

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      Chaim Soutine's canvases, period by period

      What Chaim Soutine painted most

      The four subjects that return most often on these canvases, each with its best-loved example.

      Where Chaim Soutine's canvases hang

      The 8 museums that hold the most of the paintings on this page.

      Museum City Works by Chaim Soutine Paintings from this list
      Musée de l'Orangerie, ParizMusée de l'Orangerie Pariz 9 Beef and calf's head, The Table, The Turkey
      Metropolitanski muzej umetnosti, New YorkMetropolitanski muzej umetnosti New York 7 Woman in Red Blouse, Man with Horse, Apples
      The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.The Phillips Collection Washington, D.C. 4 Windy Day, Auxerre, The Pheasant, Woman in Profile
      Nagoya City Art Museum, NagoyaNagoya City Art Museum Nagoya 3 Still Life with Fowl [Nature Morte à La Volaille], Farm Girl [La Fille de Ferme], Landscape at Céret [Paysage à Céret]
      Izraelski muzej, JeruzalemIzraelski muzej Jeruzalem 3 Landscape, Hill in Céret, Calf and Red Curtain
      Kunstmuseum Bern, BernKunstmuseum Bern Bern 2 Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall, Little Girl in Blue
      Cleveland Museum of Art, ClevelandCleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 2 Seated Woman, Still Life with Rayfish
      Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoArt Institute of Chicago Chicago 2 Dead Fowl, Landscape at Cagnes

      Chaim Soutine's most famous canvas, decade after decade

      1. 1910s
        Suburban Landscape with Red Houses (1917) by Chaim Soutine
        Canvas 3 of 100

        Suburban Landscape with Red Houses

        Age 17 – 26

        In the turbulent landscape of early 20th-century modernism, few voices resonate with as much raw, visceral energy as that of Chaim Soutine. His 1917 masterpiece, Suburban Landscape with…

      2. 1920s
        Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall (1924) by Chaim Soutine
        Ranked 1 of 100

        Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall

        Age 27 – 36 · Kunstmuseum Bern

        The painting titled Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall emerged from the restless hand of Chaim Soutine. Created about 1924, the work captures a singular, heavy…

      3. 1930s
        Portrait of a Child (1937) by Chaim Soutine
        Ranked 5 of 100

        Portrait of a Child

        Age 37 – 46

        In this intimate work, titled Portrait of a Child, the artist Chaim Soutine turns his gaze toward the quiet vulnerability of youth. Created about 1937, the painting presents…

      Chaim Soutine's canvases, question by question

      Which canvas is Chaim Soutine most remembered for?Read the answer

      Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall (1924), Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern. Hanging Duck (1925) and Suburban Landscape with Red Houses (1917) follow.

      Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall: how old was Chaim Soutine when it was painted?Read the answer

      Chaim Soutine, born in 1893, was 31 years old: Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall dates from 1924.

      What are Chaim Soutine's ten most famous canvases?Read the answer

      Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall, Hanging Duck, Suburban Landscape with Red Houses, Girl in Red, Portrait of a Child, Untitled (1411), Beef and calf's head, The Gipsy, Return from School After the Storm and Ceret Lanscape. Each canvas in the ranking above comes with its year and its museum.

      How many paintings did Chaim Soutine create?Read the answer

      118 works by Chaim Soutine are in our catalogue, dated 1916 to 1937.

      Where do Chaim Soutine's most famous canvases hang today?Read the answer

      Mostly in Musée de l'Orangerie (Pariz), Metropolitanski muzej umetnosti (New York) and The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.); the list above names each museum and its canvases.

      When did Chaim Soutine paint the most famous canvases?Read the answer

      In 1920s, which gave 38 of the 100 works on this page, Chicken Hanging in Front of a Brick Wall among them.

      Which famous Chaim Soutine canvas came first, and which came last?Read the answer

      The earliest canvas here is Self-Portrait (1916); the latest is Portrait of a Child (1937).

      Which subjects did Chaim Soutine paint most?Read the answer

      Portrait (5), Meat (4) and Portrait painting (4), across the 100 works on this page.

      Which medium appears most in Chaim Soutine's paintings?Read the answer

      Oil On Canvas, used in 16 of the 100 works on this page.

      Which movement is Chaim Soutine associated with?Read the answer

      Expressionism, as the canvases on this page show.

      Which paintings by Chaim Soutine are held by the Musée de l'Orangerie?Read the answer

      The Musée de l'Orangerie, Pariz holds 7 of the works on this page, among them Beef and calf's head, The Table and The Turkey.

      Where can I buy a reproduction of a Chaim Soutine painting?Read the answer

      Yes. Every painting on this page can be ordered from its own page as an oil reproduction painted by hand, or as a fine art print, in the size you choose.

      Meet the painter: Chaim Soutine

      Življenje v viharju: Svet Chaima Soutina

      Chaim Soutine se je rodil leta 1893 v veliki, revni judovski družini v Smilovičih, Rusija (danes Belorusija). Njegovo zgodnje življenje je bilo zaznamovano s trdo delom in pomanjkanjem. Ta oblikovalna izkušnja – otroštvo, prežeto z materialno revščino in omejitvami njegove ortodoksne skupnosti – bi globoko vplivala na njegov umetniški vid. Čeprav figuralna reprezentacija ni bila spodbujana v njegovem verskem okolju, je kljub temu zacvetel talent za risanje, ki je nakazoval strastno intenzivnost, ki bi definirala njegovo delo. Formalno se je izobraževal na umetniški akademiji v Vilni (danes Vilnius, Litva) od leta 1910 do 1913, a je bilo prav selitev v Pariz leta 1913 resnično ključna. Vpis na École des Beaux-Arts pod vodstvom Fernanda Cormona ga je postavil v živahno umetniško skupnost, vendar je ostal zunaj prevladujočih trendov in si utiral edinstveno pot. Njegovi začetni pariški leti so bili zaznamovani s skrajno revščino, kar se je odražalo v čustvenih turbulencah na njegovih platnih.

      Izrazionist zase: Stil in vplivi

      Čeprav ga pogosto uvrščajo med izrazioniste, je označiti Soutina zgolj s tem okvirjem omejujoče. Njegov stil je bil globoko individualen – prepričljiva sinteza tradicionalnega evropskega slikarstva, še posebej nizozemskih mojstrov kot sta Rembrandt in Chardin ter realizma Courbeta – filtriran skozi objektiv surove čustvene intenzivnosti. Ni preprosto posnemal teh mojstrov; absorbiral je njihove tehnike in kompozicijske strategije, jih nato nasilno ponovno interpretiral, da bi izrazil svoj notranji svet. Žareče barve, nanesene z debelo impasto – teksturirano aplikacijo barve, ki daje njegovim površinam otipljivo fizičnost – in nemirno črtanje so značilnosti njegovega sloga. Soutine se ni zanimal za natančno reprezentacijo; iskal je ujeti čustveno bistvo svojih motivov, pogosto jih prežene z občutkom nelagodja ali psihološke napetosti. Pokrajine, portreti in tihožitja so postali njegovi preferirani mediji za to raziskovanje, ponavljajoči se teme kot hrana in živali pa odražajo osebne izkušnje in judovsko dediščino. To niso bili zgolj prikazi; bili so visceralni izrazi občutkov, naslikani s skoraj obupanim nabojem.

      Razvoj in ključna dela

      Soutinov umetniški razvoj se je odvijal skozi različna obdobja, vsako zaznamovano z edinstvenimi stilskimi raziskovanji. Zgodnja pariška leta (1913-1917) so ga videla, kako se znajde v svojem glasu sredi finančnih težav. Obdobje, ki ga je preživel v Céretu med letoma 1919 in 1922, je bilo ključno. Tukaj, obdani z dramatično pokrajino južne Francije, je ustvaril številna svoja najbolj slavna dela. Te slike se odlikujejo po živahnih barvah, popačenih oblikah in občutku skoraj nasilne energije. Drevá, klifi in polja postanejo vrtinčaste mase barve, ki odražajo ne le to, kar je Soutine videl, ampak tudi kako se je *počutil* v njihovi prisotnosti. Tudi njegovi portreti izstopajo po psihološki globini. Pogosto je upodabljal delavce z surovo iskrenostjo, ki je izzivala konvencionalno portretiranje in razkrila dostojanstvo in ranljivost svojih motivov. Podobno so njegove tihožitja – aranžmaji hrane in predmetov – prenašali občutek vitalnosti, pa tudi motijoče energije, kot da bi bili celo neživi predmeti prežeti z življenjem in čustvi. Pomembna dela iz tega obdobja vključujejo študije, povezane z "Plesom življenja", številne pokrajine, ki ugrabljujejo bistvo Céreta, in ganljive portrete ruskih emigrantov v Parizu.

      Priznanje, zapuščina in trajni vpliv

      Soutine je bil ključna figura znotraj Šole pariških umetnikov – raznolike skupine umetnikov, ki so delali v mestu v zgodnjem 20. stoletju. Vendar pa njegova pot do priznanja ni bila enostavna. Trgovec z umetninami Leopold Zborowski je igral ključno vlogo pri promoviranju Soutineovega dela in zagotavljanju njegove finančne stabilnosti, saj je prepoznal edinstveno moč njegove vizije. Začetni kritični odziv je bil mešan, vendar se je njegov ugled sčasoma stalno povečeval. Njegova ekspresivna uporaba barve in čustvena intenzivnost so globoko vplivale na poznejše umetnike, vključno z Willemom de Kooningom in Francisom Baconom, ki so videli v Soutinu sorodnega duha – umetnika, ki je bil pripravljen premikati meje reprezentacije v iskanju pristne ekspresije. Danes je Chaim Soutine upravičeno priznan kot pomembna figura izrazionizma in pomemben prispevalec k umetnosti 20. stoletja. Njegova dela hranijo prestižni muzeji po vsem svetu, kar dokazuje njegovo trajno zapuščino. Predstavlja ključni most med tradicionalnimi evropskimi slikarskimi tehnikami in nastajajočimi oblikami abstraktnega ekspresionizma, pri čemer daje prednost čustvenemu izrazu pred objektivno reprezentacijo ter razvija umetniški glas, ki je presegel tipične izrazionistične skrbi. Njegov inovativni slog je utrl pot prihodnjim generacijam umetnikov, ki so iskali raziskovanje globin človeških čustev skozi moč barve.

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