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Soutine's big break came in 1922, when one of those connoisseurs of the "primitive," the eccentric Philadelphia art educator Dr. Albert Barnes, bought up 52 of Soutine's paintings, making Soutine an art world celebrity almost overnight.
So the current show at the Jewish Museum offers an opportunity both to re-evaluate Soutine's connection to de Kooning and Pollock and to dig more deeply into Soutine's relation to French culture and to his own Jewishness.
Soutine was born the 10 th of 11 children to an impoverished tailor (or more precisely a "mender") and his wife in Smilovitchi, a village near Minsk.
The 56 paintings in the show are hung in three sections, each corresponding to one of the three ways critics have viewed Soutine: Soutine as an untutored "primitive" painter, which is how he was seen in the 1920s; Soutine as a master and the last great hope for traditional painting in France--his reputation in the 1930s; and Soutine as a prophet of Abstract Expressionism, which is what critics thought in the 1940s, when they "rediscovered" him.
Soutine wasn't just "living with a friend" in the countryside.
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