Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Paper Size: 20 x 26 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, Soutine, I, Collection Pierre Levy, 1966; published by Fernand Mourlot, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 20, 1966. Excerpted from the folio, This album, the first of a series dedicated to Mr. Pierre Lévy's collection, was printed in DL examples on Arches vélin. Printing was finished on October 20, 1966 by Mourlot for reproductions of the canvases of Soutine, and by Fequet and Baudier for Waldemar George's unpublished text. Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1966. CHAIM SOUTINE (1893–1943) was born Chaïm -Iche Solomonovich Sutin, in Smalvichy in the Minsk Govemorate of the Russian Empire (today it is Belarus). He was Jewish by descend and the tenth of eleven children born to his parents Zalman Sutin and Sarah Sutina. From 1910 to 1913 he studied in Vilnius at a small art academy. In 1913, with his friends Pinchus Kremegne and Michel Kikoine, he emigrated to Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Fernand Cormon. He soon developed a highly personal vision and painting technique. Having been known as a Russian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement (while living in Paris). He was inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin, and Courbet. Soutine developed an Individual style more concerned with shape, color and texture over representation. This helped bridge between the more traditional approaches and the developing Abstract Expressionism.