Fashioning Kimono: Dress And Modernity in Early Twentieth-century Japan

Chaim Soutine (1894-1944), a Lithuanian painter, Parisian by adoption, is a legendary member of the movement art history dubbed the Ecole de Paris. It indicates both a style (an expressionist heightening of forms and colours firmly bound to figuration) and a group of artists who immigrated to Paris in the early twentieth century, and suits Soutine perfectly. A fascinating new insight into the work of Chaim Soutine and a fresh interpretation of his career.