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Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), the unconventional and controversial painter of Belorussian origin, combines influences of classic European painting with Post-Impressionism and Expressionism. As a member of the Artists from Belarus, a group within the Parisian School, he created an oeuvre mainly consisting of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits. His individual style, characterised by displays of humour and despair and by use of luminous colours, makes him a modern master who is still little understood. About the Author :- Émile Michel (1828-1909) is a painter and Dutch and Flemish art scholar. Honorary chairman of the University of Amsterdam. Michel’s early publication was a book on the German art museums in 1886. He became a member Institute in 1892 and an officer of the Légion d’Honneur in 1903. Michel was an early and astute critic of the art museum and an advocate for art history as an academic pursuit, who happened to share the artist’s contemporary art scene while working on his text about him.