Chaïm Soutine Little Guy

chaim soutine painted this small white child in pale blue against a slightly darker blue background on a small canvas in 1934
Chaïm Soutine, le Petit Garçon, 1934, oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 14 7/8 in., sold at Christie’s in 2016

Chaïm Soutine was one of the first artists I found instead of being taught, and I am still enthralled by the intense, uphoved world of his paintings. [His real life, kind of a bummer, tbqh.]

Anyway, after @pg5-ish reblogged Soutine’s Two Children on a Tree Trunk (1942-3) into my tumblr dashboard this morning, I went looking for it, and found instead this great little painting of an unsettled little guy, which sold at Christie’s in 2016.