I was researching alliterations for my forthcoming ebook Improve your English, looking for an alliterative attraction in Belarus. I scanned down the sights of Belarus and Minsk and found a museum about the artist Soutine.
Okay, remind me. Who was Soutine? He was born in the Minsk are of Russia, now Belarus, of Jewish parents. His father was a taylor. Soutine studied art and worked in a photographic studio as a retourcher.
He went to Paris which was a centre for art and artists in those days and lived in an artist's colony with other famous artists.
At first he was short of money. Then a collector bought a large number of paintings and he was suddenly rich.
When the Nazis threatened to take over Paris he escaped south, and eventually went on the run. At one time he slept in the open in the forests.
This period of uncertainty lasted about two years. He eventually died of ulcers. When the bleeding got too bad, he risked returning to Paris for an operation. the operation was not successful. He died in the mid 1940s, aged 50.
Friend of Chagall.
Painted by Modigliani. The Modigliani portrait of Soutine is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, USA.
Soutine, self-portrait, on long term loan to the Princeton University Museum of Art in New Jersey, USA.
Useful Websites
UK
Paris style restaurant in St Johns Wood, England.
https://www.soutine.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
BELARUS
Note that by in the website stands for Belarus
https://www.belarus.by/en/travel/belarus-life/sightseeing/tourist-attraction-minsk
https://soutine-smilovichi.by/
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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Okay, remind me. Who was Soutine? He was born in the Minsk are of Russia, now Belarus, of Jewish parents. His father was a taylor. Soutine studied art and worked in a photographic studio as a retourcher.
He went to Paris which was a centre for art and artists in those days and lived in an artist's colony with other famous artists.
At first he was short of money. Then a collector bought a large number of paintings and he was suddenly rich.
When the Nazis threatened to take over Paris he escaped south, and eventually went on the run. At one time he slept in the open in the forests.
This period of uncertainty lasted about two years. He eventually died of ulcers. When the bleeding got too bad, he risked returning to Paris for an operation. the operation was not successful. He died in the mid 1940s, aged 50.
Friend of Chagall.
Painted by Modigliani. The Modigliani portrait of Soutine is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, USA.
Soutine by Modigliani, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Useful Websites
UK
Paris style restaurant in St Johns Wood, England.
https://www.soutine.co.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
BELARUS
Note that by in the website stands for Belarus
https://www.belarus.by/en/travel/belarus-life/sightseeing/tourist-attraction-minsk
https://soutine-smilovichi.by/
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I have many more posts about destinations, dances and decorations.
Please share links to your favourite posts
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